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Page 37 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Page 278 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 250 - The design of Mr. Wakefteld in the plan of this work was the union of theological and classical learning, — the illustration of the Scriptures by light borrowed from the philology of Greece and Rome, as a probable method of recommending the books of revelation to scholars.
Page 401 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming, in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth-; they that have done good to the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation,"
Page 332 - That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed...
Page 52 - An Historical View of the State of the Unitarian Doctrine and Worship from the Reformation to our own Times;
Page 390 - I cannot perceive an action to be Right without approving it, or approve it without being conscious of some degree of satisfaction and complacency. I cannot perceive an action to be wrong without disapproving it, or disapprove it without being displeased with it. Right actions, then, as such, must be grateful, and wrong ones ungrateful, to us. The one must appear amiable, and the other unamiable and base.
Page 393 - Other laws have had a date ; a time when they were enacted, and became of force. They are confined to particular places, rest on precarious foundations, may lose their vigour, grow obsolete with time, and become useless and neglected. Nothing like this can be true of this law. It has no date. It never was made or enacted. It is prior to all things. It is self-valid and self-originated ; and must for ever retain its usefulness and vigour, without the possibility of diminution or abatement. It is coeval...
Page 392 - That has proper authority over us, to which, if we refuse submission, we transgress our duty, incur guilt, and expose ourselves to just vengeance. All this is certainly true of our moral judgment, and contained in the idea of it. Rectitude then, or virtue, is a...