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... consequences which follow from this fact . The great object of the following Essay is to exhibit these rela- tions and consequences with a view to the improvement of education , and the regulation of individual and national conduci But ...
... consequences which follow from this fact . The great object of the following Essay is to exhibit these rela- tions and consequences with a view to the improvement of education , and the regulation of individual and national conduci But ...
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... consequence of forgetting it , my language has occasionally been misap- prehended , and my objects misrepresented . When I speak of man's " highest interest , " for example , as on page 7 , and in other places , I uniformly refer to man ...
... consequence of forgetting it , my language has occasionally been misap- prehended , and my objects misrepresented . When I speak of man's " highest interest , " for example , as on page 7 , and in other places , I uniformly refer to man ...
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... , and that , in consequence , his modes of life have never been adopted from enlightened views of his whole capacities and qualities , but sprung up from the instinctive ascendency of one blind propensity or another , -warrant.
... , and that , in consequence , his modes of life have never been adopted from enlightened views of his whole capacities and qualities , but sprung up from the instinctive ascendency of one blind propensity or another , -warrant.
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... consequence , persons of sincere piety have , for several centuries , been induced to look down on this world as a wilderness abounding with briars , weeds , and noxious things , and to direct their chief attention , not to the study of ...
... consequence , persons of sincere piety have , for several centuries , been induced to look down on this world as a wilderness abounding with briars , weeds , and noxious things , and to direct their chief attention , not to the study of ...
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... consequence of the believer attaining to a holy and pious frame of mind in this life ; they have represented the constitution of the world to be so unfavorable to piety and virtue , that men in general , who continue attached to it ...
... consequence of the believer attaining to a holy and pious frame of mind in this life ; they have represented the constitution of the world to be so unfavorable to piety and virtue , that men in general , who continue attached to it ...
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Page 352 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 359 - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
Page 354 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 351 - For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again.
Page 372 - If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? Or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? If thou be righteous, what givest thou him ? Or what receiveth he of thine hand? Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Page 355 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Page 366 - I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Page 367 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 247 - Iberia ? Do we see The robber and the murderer weak as we? Thou, that hast wasted earth, and dared despise Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies, Thy pomp is in the grave, thy glory laid Low in the pits thine avarice has made. We come with joy from our eternal rest, To see th' oppressor in his turn oppressed.
Page 372 - So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do.