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... desire to render it worthy of the approbation of my transatlantic friends . I have not found it necessary to alter any essential ' principle adopted in the first edition . On the contrary , seven years of ad- ditional observation ...
... desire to render it worthy of the approbation of my transatlantic friends . I have not found it necessary to alter any essential ' principle adopted in the first edition . On the contrary , seven years of ad- ditional observation ...
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... desires , or to what object they tend . Man , however , has been framed differently . The Creator has bestowed on him faculties to observe pheno- mena , and to trace cause and effect ; and he has constituted the external world to afford ...
... desires , or to what object they tend . Man , however , has been framed differently . The Creator has bestowed on him faculties to observe pheno- mena , and to trace cause and effect ; and he has constituted the external world to afford ...
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... desires , and is adapted to a world in which death reigns , and generation succeeds generation . This fact , although so trite and obvious as to appear scarcely worthy of being noticed , is of importance in treating of Man ; because the ...
... desires , and is adapted to a world in which death reigns , and generation succeeds generation . This fact , although so trite and obvious as to appear scarcely worthy of being noticed , is of importance in treating of Man ; because the ...
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... desires to study the Creator's works , to ascertain his laws , and to yield to them a steady and a willing obedience . Without undervaluing the pleasures of his animal nature , he tastes the higher , more refined , and more enduring ...
... desires to study the Creator's works , to ascertain his laws , and to yield to them a steady and a willing obedience . Without undervaluing the pleasures of his animal nature , he tastes the higher , more refined , and more enduring ...
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... desires , which , from the nature of things , cannot be grati fied ; they are punished by the perpetual craving of what ever portion of moral sentiment they possess , for higher enjoyments , which are never attained ; and they are ...
... desires , which , from the nature of things , cannot be grati fied ; they are punished by the perpetual craving of what ever portion of moral sentiment they possess , for higher enjoyments , which are never attained ; and they are ...
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Page 368 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 368 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 370 - This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Page 370 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 367 - I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
Page 366 - The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil : for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 369 - 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 31 - ... and misery, but also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would...
Page 370 - ... drunkenness, revellings, and such like : of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance : against such there is no law.
Page 363 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.