Sermons on the Dignity of Man: And the Value of the Objects Principally Relating to Human Happiness, Volume 1Thomas & Sturtevant, 1807 - Dignity |
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... ourselves , or which even delivers the very same things in a different phraseology . The force of the scriptural doctrines by no means lies in the words wherein they were anciently promulgated to the jews and the heathens , but in the ...
... ourselves , or which even delivers the very same things in a different phraseology . The force of the scriptural doctrines by no means lies in the words wherein they were anciently promulgated to the jews and the heathens , but in the ...
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... ourselves , that we are not wiser , and better , and happier ; that we so slowly advance towards the perfec- tion to which thou hast made us capable of attaining ; that we assert not more worthily the glory of man ! Alas ! Ma- ny of us ...
... ourselves , that we are not wiser , and better , and happier ; that we so slowly advance towards the perfec- tion to which thou hast made us capable of attaining ; that we assert not more worthily the glory of man ! Alas ! Ma- ny of us ...
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... ourselves sufficiently wise so soon as we in some sort understand the business of our station or calling , and to have learnt to act our part with tolerable decency in social life ; when we imagine ourselves virtuous and pious enough so ...
... ourselves sufficiently wise so soon as we in some sort understand the business of our station or calling , and to have learnt to act our part with tolerable decency in social life ; when we imagine ourselves virtuous and pious enough so ...
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... ourselves in the slightest instance for others , from a generous and a beneficent spirit ? Is that to be called stretching for- ward , always striving after perfection , duly using our faculties , and thereby maintaining the glorious ...
... ourselves in the slightest instance for others , from a generous and a beneficent spirit ? Is that to be called stretching for- ward , always striving after perfection , duly using our faculties , and thereby maintaining the glorious ...
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... ourselves , to our ignorance and our imbecility ! How soon should we then forfeit our dignity ! How deeply degrade ourselves by folly and sins ! In what a helpless and forlorn condition should we be ! But thou , who hast created us ...
... ourselves , to our ignorance and our imbecility ! How soon should we then forfeit our dignity ! How deeply degrade ourselves by folly and sins ! In what a helpless and forlorn condition should we be ! But thou , who hast created us ...
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Page 211 - And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.
Page 170 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 384 - It is a faithful saying : For if we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him : if we suffer, we shall also reign with Him...
Page 189 - They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Page 126 - For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Page 317 - Savior says, that it will profit a man nothing to have gained the whole world, if he lose his own soul ; or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul...
Page 267 - I am the way, the truth, and the life ;" — " I am the light of the world," — are declarations of a similar import.
Page 402 - CHRIST ; showing, of a truth, that " the sufferings of this present time are not to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.
Page 246 - His kingdom is not in meats and drinks, but in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Page 385 - I am the resurrection, and the life: he that bclieveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.