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We must be earnest , then , in our attachment to our Christian altars , and we
must give some visible token that we are so . We must be earnest in our Sabbath
observances and worship . I do not mean that we should be superstitious , or that
...
We must be earnest , then , in our attachment to our Christian altars , and we
must give some visible token that we are so . We must be earnest in our Sabbath
observances and worship . I do not mean that we should be superstitious , or that
...
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This is the great end of all - - an earnest Christian life . I do not mean that
onesided earnestness , which concentrates itself on a single idea , a single
reform , or a single sin . I mean an earnestness which embraces the whole circle
of human ...
This is the great end of all - - an earnest Christian life . I do not mean that
onesided earnestness , which concentrates itself on a single idea , a single
reform , or a single sin . I mean an earnestness which embraces the whole circle
of human ...
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An earnest religion : - Why , must not all religion be earnest , if it be any thing ?
Religion is either nothing , or it deals with great and solemn realities , and it must
therefore be earnest . And have we not need of an earnest religion ?
An earnest religion : - Why , must not all religion be earnest , if it be any thing ?
Religion is either nothing , or it deals with great and solemn realities , and it must
therefore be earnest . And have we not need of an earnest religion ?
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It is the most earnest of books . All the religious earnestness , that has been in the
world for the last eighteen hundred years , has come from the Bible ; and if we
would acquire an earnest , practical religion , strict and serious , without being ...
It is the most earnest of books . All the religious earnestness , that has been in the
world for the last eighteen hundred years , has come from the Bible ; and if we
would acquire an earnest , practical religion , strict and serious , without being ...
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For how can we expect people to believe that we are in earnest on great points ,
when they see that we cannot withstand a trivial temptation , against which
resistance would have been comparatively easy ? What if our general character
be ...
For how can we expect people to believe that we are in earnest on great points ,
when they see that we cannot withstand a trivial temptation , against which
resistance would have been comparatively easy ? What if our general character
be ...
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Page 63 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Page 118 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 32 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...
Page 113 - For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Page 144 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 111 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 190 - Christian should turn his attention if he would be able ' to give a reason for the hope that is in him.
Page 130 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 44 - And when he came to himself, he said. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare ; and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 128 - The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, (whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures,) to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
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| Title | Tracts of the American Unitarian Association Tracts of the American Unitarian Association, Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Contributors | American Unitarian Association, Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Publisher | The Association, 1843 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 14 Apr 2008 |
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