Sermons on the dignity of man, and the value of the objects principally relating to human happiness, from the Germ. by W. Tooke, Volume 2 |
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... still accrues ? I am fenfible that public and congrega- - tional worship , even where it is the leaft perverted from its proper object , is not always productive of what it might effect . It is administered by men ; and who knows not ...
... still accrues ? I am fenfible that public and congrega- - tional worship , even where it is the leaft perverted from its proper object , is not always productive of what it might effect . It is administered by men ; and who knows not ...
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... Still lefs real value does a fuperftitious worship poffefs , which gives us low and falfe con- ceptions of the deity ; which spreads fervile fears and flavish terror among its followers ; conceals the Father of mankind from their fight ...
... Still lefs real value does a fuperftitious worship poffefs , which gives us low and falfe con- ceptions of the deity ; which spreads fervile fears and flavish terror among its followers ; conceals the Father of mankind from their fight ...
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... still lefs always in a fuperior degree , muft it not give a great value to public and focial worship ? * What a value , in fhort , muft it not receive from hence that by it the fentiment of the natural equa- lity of mankind and their ...
... still lefs always in a fuperior degree , muft it not give a great value to public and focial worship ? * What a value , in fhort , muft it not receive from hence that by it the fentiment of the natural equa- lity of mankind and their ...
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... still too often and too eafily are in- duced to withdraw from ourselves and from thee our creator and father , and wander about , unconscious of ourfelves , beguiled by fenfual lufts among things that have more femblance than reality ...
... still too often and too eafily are in- duced to withdraw from ourselves and from thee our creator and father , and wander about , unconscious of ourfelves , beguiled by fenfual lufts among things that have more femblance than reality ...
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... still mistake it , with only this difference , that now the one and then the other has been more thronged and frequented . At present , at least in our regions of the world , thofe times are past , when the folitary life , devoted to ...
... still mistake it , with only this difference , that now the one and then the other has been more thronged and frequented . At present , at least in our regions of the world , thofe times are past , when the folitary life , devoted to ...
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Page 491 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 571 - Baptism doth represent unto us our profession ; which is, to follow the example of our Saviour Christ, and to be made like unto him ; that as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness ; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.
Page 4 - One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.
Page 9 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page 491 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 513 - Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat : and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
Page 343 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 310 - I will arife, and go to my father, and will fay unto him, Father, I have finned againft Heaven, and before thee ; and am no more worthy to be called thy fon : make me as one of thy hired fervants.
Page 491 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour.