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... heaven " for the faithful - and to excite in the mind of every reader , an ardent desire to cultivate those dispositions and virtues which will prepare him for the enjoy . ment of celestial bliss - is the Author's most sincere and ...
... heaven " for the faithful - and to excite in the mind of every reader , an ardent desire to cultivate those dispositions and virtues which will prepare him for the enjoy . ment of celestial bliss - is the Author's most sincere and ...
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... heaven , 181 . PART IV . ON THE MORAL QUALIFICATIONS REQUISITE TO THE ENJOY- MENT OF THE FELICITY OF THE FUTURE WORLD , 239 . Examples of depravity - Buonaparte , 265 . Lord Byron , 267- Example from Cochrane's Travels , 268 . Misery ...
... heaven , 181 . PART IV . ON THE MORAL QUALIFICATIONS REQUISITE TO THE ENJOY- MENT OF THE FELICITY OF THE FUTURE WORLD , 239 . Examples of depravity - Buonaparte , 265 . Lord Byron , 267- Example from Cochrane's Travels , 268 . Misery ...
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... heaven being certainly not designed for those who doubt whether they have an immortal part to en- joy it , such persons have nothing left , but the miserable chance of annihilation , or of hell . There is not any reflec- tion which can ...
... heaven being certainly not designed for those who doubt whether they have an immortal part to en- joy it , such persons have nothing left , but the miserable chance of annihilation , or of hell . There is not any reflec- tion which can ...
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... heaven , and fruitful sea- sons , and filling our hearts with food and gladness . " In like manner , though the realities of a future world are not presented directly to the eye of sense , yet the faculties with which man is endowed ...
... heaven , and fruitful sea- sons , and filling our hearts with food and gladness . " In like manner , though the realities of a future world are not presented directly to the eye of sense , yet the faculties with which man is endowed ...
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... heaven and earth , and their devils are represented with all sorts of frightful forms , of a black and hideous aspect , with the heads of goats , lions , and unicorns . Their holy Lamas , who have obtained a victory over all their ...
... heaven and earth , and their devils are represented with all sorts of frightful forms , of a black and hideous aspect , with the heads of goats , lions , and unicorns . Their holy Lamas , who have obtained a victory over all their ...
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Page 111 - Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Page 135 - The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
Page 113 - So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just : 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 228 - Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 23 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 84 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Page 26 - the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ;" neither the mind with any degree of knowledge which can be conveyed into it.
Page 228 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 114 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 111 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.