Biblical Repository and Quarterly ObserverJ. M. Sherwood., 1839 - Religion |
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... motives to mis - state the facts of which he speaks , or to falsify his testimony . Men act from motives . They can no more act without them , than they can without faculties or members . And we are always influ- enced by motives just ...
... motives to mis - state the facts of which he speaks , or to falsify his testimony . Men act from motives . They can no more act without them , than they can without faculties or members . And we are always influ- enced by motives just ...
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... motives of interest are brought to bear upon him , his course may waver - his moral strength may fail . To favor himself or those whom he loves , he may consent , for once , to conceal or mis - state the truth . It is on this account ...
... motives of interest are brought to bear upon him , his course may waver - his moral strength may fail . To favor himself or those whom he loves , he may consent , for once , to conceal or mis - state the truth . It is on this account ...
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... motives of interest , this certainly is not the case with them all . Not a few who tell us that there is such a colony , for they have seen it , would probably be glad if there was no colony there . The testimony on the point in ...
... motives of interest , this certainly is not the case with them all . Not a few who tell us that there is such a colony , for they have seen it , would probably be glad if there was no colony there . The testimony on the point in ...
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... motive of interest to induce them to fabricate a deception , and pass it off upon the world , but every consideration of a worldly nature was impelling them the other way . The price of pro- claiming and publishing the gospel message ...
... motive of interest to induce them to fabricate a deception , and pass it off upon the world , but every consideration of a worldly nature was impelling them the other way . The price of pro- claiming and publishing the gospel message ...
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... motives enough to just that course of life which they pursued . But if their testimony was not true , and they knew it was not , under what possible motive or influence could they have acted ? What could have sustained them , amid all ...
... motives enough to just that course of life which they pursued . But if their testimony was not true , and they knew it was not , under what possible motive or influence could they have acted ? What could have sustained them , amid all ...
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Popular passages
Page 410 - 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 151 - And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly ; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Page 448 - Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord ; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you : whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Page 33 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 306 - Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
Page 485 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool : his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Page 7 - Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him.
Page 473 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 418 - Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine ; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Page 130 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law ; to them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.