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... human heart - makes a great addition to his toils . It makes a deep inroad on the time he would give to study ; and al- most compels him to redeem it from the hours , which ought to be given to exercise or repose . By the variety and ...
... human heart - makes a great addition to his toils . It makes a deep inroad on the time he would give to study ; and al- most compels him to redeem it from the hours , which ought to be given to exercise or repose . By the variety and ...
Page xxxii
... human character - to raise it from the degradation and ruin of sin , and fit it for the pure and intellectual happiness of heaven . From this simple principle - so obvious , so undeni- able , and yet so often forgotten - all his views ...
... human character - to raise it from the degradation and ruin of sin , and fit it for the pure and intellectual happiness of heaven . From this simple principle - so obvious , so undeni- able , and yet so often forgotten - all his views ...
Page xxxiii
... human race , according to their deeds . These , surely , are views , which , every christian will acknowledge , enter largely into the grounds and support of his faith , and hope , and charity . They are , beyond all question , those ...
... human race , according to their deeds . These , surely , are views , which , every christian will acknowledge , enter largely into the grounds and support of his faith , and hope , and charity . They are , beyond all question , those ...
Page xxxiv
... human character , that great errours of the understanding , on almost every subject , are consistent with uprightness of heart . How , indeed , can any one fail to acknowledge , that this may be so in religion , who remembers , that ...
... human character , that great errours of the understanding , on almost every subject , are consistent with uprightness of heart . How , indeed , can any one fail to acknowledge , that this may be so in religion , who remembers , that ...
Page xxxvi
... human life - a fault , which no other excellencies can re- deem . The origin of almost all the corruptions of christ- ianity may be referred to this tendency in men to over- charge their statements of religion , in order to make them ...
... human life - a fault , which no other excellencies can re- deem . The origin of almost all the corruptions of christ- ianity may be referred to this tendency in men to over- charge their statements of religion , in order to make them ...
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Page 139 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Page 213 - If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Page 214 - I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.
Page 66 - And the people gave a shout, saying, "It is the voice of a god and not of a man." And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 338 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Page xxxiii - And this I pray, that your love may ab'ound yet more and more in knowledge and 'in all judgment, that ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page 108 - By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
Page 112 - For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.
Page 2 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page viii - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. 62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.