The Works of Hannah More, Volume 10T. Cadell, 1830 |
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Page 10
... carry with it nothing but corruption . It intended neither to bring glory to God , nor peace and good will , much less salvation , to men . It was invented to embellish the fabulous periods of their history , to flatter illustrious ...
... carry with it nothing but corruption . It intended neither to bring glory to God , nor peace and good will , much less salvation , to men . It was invented to embellish the fabulous periods of their history , to flatter illustrious ...
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... carry conversion to the heart as well as conviction to the understanding . Such a religion God was preparing for them in the Gospel of his Son . Christianity was calculated to supply the exi- gencies both of the Greeks and of the barba ...
... carry conversion to the heart as well as conviction to the understanding . Such a religion God was preparing for them in the Gospel of his Son . Christianity was calculated to supply the exi- gencies both of the Greeks and of the barba ...
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... carry their own explanation , disentangled from those trains of argument , which , as few could have been brought to com- prehend , perhaps it was the greatest wisdom in the philosopher never to have proposed to them . The most skilful ...
... carry their own explanation , disentangled from those trains of argument , which , as few could have been brought to com- prehend , perhaps it was the greatest wisdom in the philosopher never to have proposed to them . The most skilful ...
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... carry conviction to the mind of every unpre- judiced enquirer , even if this proof were not accompanied by such a cloud of concurring testimonies . The sacred volume is composed by a vast variety of writers , men of every different rank ...
... carry conviction to the mind of every unpre- judiced enquirer , even if this proof were not accompanied by such a cloud of concurring testimonies . The sacred volume is composed by a vast variety of writers , men of every different rank ...
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... carried away , by the cir- cumstances they relate , into any pomp of diction , into any use of superlatives . There is not , per- haps , in the whole Gospel a single interjection , not an exclamation , not any artifice to call the ...
... carried away , by the cir- cumstances they relate , into any pomp of diction , into any use of superlatives . There is not , per- haps , in the whole Gospel a single interjection , not an exclamation , not any artifice to call the ...
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Page 80 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 152 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead...
Page 152 - That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.
Page 295 - Behold I show you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again ; but we shall not all be changed : in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet ; for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible ; and we shall be changed.
Page 349 - My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
Page 153 - Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us ; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men : 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always : for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Page 81 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you: and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 173 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 141 - In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works : in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page 318 - But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.