Some Thoughts on the Most Christian Use of the Sunday: A Sermon Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, Jan. 30thB. H. Greene, 1848 - 51 pages |
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... honor of particular events in the life of Jesus , or in honor of saints and martyrs , or they were days consecrated by older festivals belonging to the more ancient forms of religion . In the Catholic church such days are still numerous ...
... honor of particular events in the life of Jesus , or in honor of saints and martyrs , or they were days consecrated by older festivals belonging to the more ancient forms of religion . In the Catholic church such days are still numerous ...
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... honor the heroic virtues of our fathers not less because I see their faults ; see the cause of their faults and the occasion which de- manded such masculine and terrible virtues as the Puritans unquestionably possessed . I speak only of ...
... honor the heroic virtues of our fathers not less because I see their faults ; see the cause of their faults and the occasion which de- manded such masculine and terrible virtues as the Puritans unquestionably possessed . I speak only of ...
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... honor the good deeds of our fathers ; and not eat , but reverently bury their honored bones . The Puritans represented the natural reaction of mankind against old institutions that were absurd or tyrannical . The Catholic church had ...
... honor the good deeds of our fathers ; and not eat , but reverently bury their honored bones . The Puritans represented the natural reaction of mankind against old institutions that were absurd or tyrannical . The Catholic church had ...
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... honor them . That intensity of action when turned towards material things , or , as they called them , " carnal things , " needed some powerful check . It was found in their bigotry and superstition . In such an age as theirs , when the ...
... honor them . That intensity of action when turned towards material things , or , as they called them , " carnal things , " needed some powerful check . It was found in their bigotry and superstition . In such an age as theirs , when the ...
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... honor them the more that now they are old , battered , unfit for use and covered with rust . I would respectfully hang them up , superstition and the musket , side by side ; honorable , but harmless , with their muzzles down , and pray ...
... honor them the more that now they are old , battered , unfit for use and covered with rust . I would respectfully hang them up , superstition and the musket , side by side ; honorable , but harmless , with their muzzles down , and pray ...
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Page 4 - Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless ? But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. But, if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Page 3 - See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Page 3 - Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever...
Page 17 - let no man judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath.
Page 4 - And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Page 4 - Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Page 3 - Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 4 - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Page 3 - Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore ; for it is holy unto you : every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death : for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Page 4 - And the Lord said unto Moses, "The man shall be surely put to death : all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp." And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died ; as the Lord commanded Moses.