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... happiness of mankind . If it be demanded , Whence arise those inducements . to evil , which so often disturb the peace of society , and ruin man's happiness ? the answer is both easy and scriptural . The heart is deceitful , and every ...
... happiness of mankind . If it be demanded , Whence arise those inducements . to evil , which so often disturb the peace of society , and ruin man's happiness ? the answer is both easy and scriptural . The heart is deceitful , and every ...
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... happiness depend- ed on the existence and influence of an infernal fiend ! Atheism and the disbelief of a devil , vibrate the same feelings of horror in the superstitious mind ; and , perhaps , atheism itself is deemed by some to be ...
... happiness depend- ed on the existence and influence of an infernal fiend ! Atheism and the disbelief of a devil , vibrate the same feelings of horror in the superstitious mind ; and , perhaps , atheism itself is deemed by some to be ...
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... happiness demands . O how different from the doc- trines of devils , are the views of God exhibited in the gospel of Jesus ! There we read of one God and Fa- ther of all , who is above all , through all , and in us all . That it is his ...
... happiness demands . O how different from the doc- trines of devils , are the views of God exhibited in the gospel of Jesus ! There we read of one God and Fa- ther of all , who is above all , through all , and in us all . That it is his ...
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... happiness of all the good , and everlasting punishment of all the wicked . " Pray , what more do orthodox people wish them to believe , to be as orthodox as themselves ? What more could missionaries teach them , to perfect their ...
... happiness of all the good , and everlasting punishment of all the wicked . " Pray , what more do orthodox people wish them to believe , to be as orthodox as themselves ? What more could missionaries teach them , to perfect their ...
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... happiness as misery , in its idea , came to be used by religious impostors of every de- scription , as a fit engine to awe the mind of the credu- lous into that pliability , necessary to favour the views . of the avaricious priest or ...
... happiness as misery , in its idea , came to be used by religious impostors of every de- scription , as a fit engine to awe the mind of the credu- lous into that pliability , necessary to favour the views . of the avaricious priest or ...
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Page 196 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 137 - Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel : behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost : we are cut off for our parts.
Page 135 - Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world : but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Page 158 - O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave : thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Page 292 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
Page 177 - Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Page 180 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 132 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 131 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: "so the LORD alone did lead him, and there •was no strange god with him.
Page 287 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.