Memoir of the Life and Character of Ebenezer Porter, D. D., Late President of the Theological Seminary, Andover |
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... feelings of others , even in supporting a good cause ; one of the last , in- ' deed , to venture a doubtful approach to limits pre- scribed by delicacy , much more a doubtful step across those limits . Could he now speak from the narrow ...
... feelings of others , even in supporting a good cause ; one of the last , in- ' deed , to venture a doubtful approach to limits pre- scribed by delicacy , much more a doubtful step across those limits . Could he now speak from the narrow ...
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... feelings - Elected a member of C. A. S.- Elected a trustee of Conn . Mis . Soc . - Attends Gen. Assembly Pres . Church - Invitation to Dutch Church at Albany - Request to preach election sermon , • CHAPTER IV . Appointment at Andover ...
... feelings - Elected a member of C. A. S.- Elected a trustee of Conn . Mis . Soc . - Attends Gen. Assembly Pres . Church - Invitation to Dutch Church at Albany - Request to preach election sermon , • CHAPTER IV . Appointment at Andover ...
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... Feeling of responsibility as a literary man - Letter to Robert Hall , CHAPTER XII . CHRISTIAN CHARACTER . Remarks - Reason why Dr. Porter kept no diary — Resolutions - Means of growth in piety - Systematic in cultivating spiritual feelings ...
... Feeling of responsibility as a literary man - Letter to Robert Hall , CHAPTER XII . CHRISTIAN CHARACTER . Remarks - Reason why Dr. Porter kept no diary — Resolutions - Means of growth in piety - Systematic in cultivating spiritual feelings ...
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... feeling and action , and of enjoyments inseparable from them . It brings the portraiture to the fireside and the closet , and calls us to free , intimate , unrestrained communion with departed wisdom and piety . It tells us by what ...
... feeling and action , and of enjoyments inseparable from them . It brings the portraiture to the fireside and the closet , and calls us to free , intimate , unrestrained communion with departed wisdom and piety . It tells us by what ...
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... feelings were under the control of piety . When he surveyed his country , it was with the eye of a Christian . When he spoke of the character or the measures of those in au- thority , it was in the language of piety , dictated by ...
... feelings were under the control of piety . When he surveyed his country , it was with the eye of a Christian . When he spoke of the character or the measures of those in au- thority , it was in the language of piety , dictated by ...
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Memoir of the Life and Character of Ebenezer Porter, D. D., Late President ... Lyman Matthews No preview available - 2019 |
Memoir of the Life and Character of Ebenezer Porter, D. D., Late President ... Lyman Matthews No preview available - 2016 |
Memoir of the Life and Character of Ebenezer Porter, D. D. , Late President ... Lyman Matthews No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 228 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 345 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 180 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Page 345 - ... Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man. ought to respect and to cherish them.
Page 252 - They are to be delivered out from the lips, as beautiful coins newly issued from the mint, deeply and accurately impressed, perfectly finished, neatly struck by the proper organs, distinct, sharp, in due succession, and of due weight.
Page 187 - His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel But who with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 30 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 65 - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Page 34 - Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. 29 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
Page 63 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.