The TrianglePrinted and published for the author, Van Winkle & Wiley, printers, 1816 - Antinomianism - 399 pages |
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... happiness the highest and ruling mo- tive of our conduct , may be termed selfishness , their scheme of religion is purely selfish .. And while I cast no personal reflections , I do not hesitate to say , that men ardently attached to ...
... happiness the highest and ruling mo- tive of our conduct , may be termed selfishness , their scheme of religion is purely selfish .. And while I cast no personal reflections , I do not hesitate to say , that men ardently attached to ...
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... happiness of bimself above any other object . Now , I ask , what sin is human nature charged with , which may not easily and directly be traced to that source ? Is a man covetous ? What does the increase of wealth regard but self ...
... happiness of bimself above any other object . Now , I ask , what sin is human nature charged with , which may not easily and directly be traced to that source ? Is a man covetous ? What does the increase of wealth regard but self ...
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... happiness , that he will not be able to perceive any stronger motive of love to God , than because God has done good to him : and that this , of course , will be the rule of his attachment to all beings . May God dispel the clouds that ...
... happiness , that he will not be able to perceive any stronger motive of love to God , than because God has done good to him : and that this , of course , will be the rule of his attachment to all beings . May God dispel the clouds that ...
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Samuel Whelpley. Religion does not render a man indifferent to happiness , but it shows him his own comparative nothingness and insignificance in the great kingdom of Jehovah ; and all the acts of divine goodness and mercy to him , and ...
Samuel Whelpley. Religion does not render a man indifferent to happiness , but it shows him his own comparative nothingness and insignificance in the great kingdom of Jehovah ; and all the acts of divine goodness and mercy to him , and ...
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... happiness , but not of ambition . The prospects are diversified with hills and valleys , and enriched with springs and rivulets . The audiences who heard Emmons have heard more truth , and are better instructed , waving all peculiar and ...
... happiness , but not of ambition . The prospects are diversified with hills and valleys , and enriched with springs and rivulets . The audiences who heard Emmons have heard more truth , and are better instructed , waving all peculiar and ...
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Page 58 - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy! Sure these denote one universal joy!
Page 24 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Page 24 - See a long race thy spacious courts adorn ! See future sons and daughters, yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend ! See thy bright altars thronged with prostrate kings, And heaped with products of Sabean springs.
Page 39 - Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner : my oxen and my fallings are killed, and all things are ready : come unto the marriage.
Page 26 - See, then, the need of having the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost!
Page 38 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Page 72 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 42 - ... (And this spake he not of himself; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation ; and not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.) Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
Page 24 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Revealed, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fixed his word, his saving power remains ; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns ! LADY CLARA VERE DK VERE _ Tennyson.
Page 39 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...