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... ought rather to have said that they are contrary to reason and duty in every condition and at every period of life . Even in youth they are built upon falsehood and folly . Young persons , as well as MOST INDISPENSABLE . 3.
... ought rather to have said that they are contrary to reason and duty in every condition and at every period of life . Even in youth they are built upon falsehood and folly . Young persons , as well as MOST INDISPENSABLE . 3.
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... Reason , faith and hope are the only principles to which religion applies , or possibly can apply : and it is religion , faith and hope striving with sense , striving with temptation , striving for things absent against things which are ...
... Reason , faith and hope are the only principles to which religion applies , or possibly can apply : and it is religion , faith and hope striving with sense , striving with temptation , striving for things absent against things which are ...
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... reason , that it implies and in- cludes that most important duty self - examination ; for I hold it to be next to impossible for a man to meditate upon religion without meditating at the same time upon his own present condition with re ...
... reason , that it implies and in- cludes that most important duty self - examination ; for I hold it to be next to impossible for a man to meditate upon religion without meditating at the same time upon his own present condition with re ...
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... reason and principle there is none . A good Christian divides his time between the du- ties of religion ; the calls of business , and those quiet relaxations which may be innocently allowed to his circumstances and condition , and which ...
... reason and principle there is none . A good Christian divides his time between the du- ties of religion ; the calls of business , and those quiet relaxations which may be innocently allowed to his circumstances and condition , and which ...
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... reason of the thing . I take upon me to say that religious men are gene- rally cheerful . If this be not observed , as might be expected , supposing it to be true , it is because the cheerfulness which religion inspires does not shew ...
... reason of the thing . I take upon me to say that religious men are gene- rally cheerful . If this be not observed , as might be expected , supposing it to be true , it is because the cheerfulness which religion inspires does not shew ...
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Page 273 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people...
Page 109 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 179 - For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Page 119 - Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world ! This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me : for he was before me.
Page 192 - Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared...
Page 96 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery : But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Page 86 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 120 - Then Jesus, answering, said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard ; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page 78 - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt...
Page 187 - And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you ; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh : That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them : and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.