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... Gibbens and others of the committee ought to have done before they made their Report of June 5th , 1838 , against the license law of April 19th , of the above year , and " stirred up the people " and " set all the city in an uproar ...
... Gibbens and others of the committee ought to have done before they made their Report of June 5th , 1838 , against the license law of April 19th , of the above year , and " stirred up the people " and " set all the city in an uproar ...
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... Gibbens ' moral character before he presented this Report , stood as fair as Adam's did before he eat " of the tree of knowledge of good and evil , " it would not have the least to do with the subject of his Report . If Col. Gibbens is ...
... Gibbens ' moral character before he presented this Report , stood as fair as Adam's did before he eat " of the tree of knowledge of good and evil , " it would not have the least to do with the subject of his Report . If Col. Gibbens is ...
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... Gibbens sent forth to the world from the Old Common Council Room , in the city of Boston . Until after the , day of Penticost , the law and the gos- pel was principally conferred to the Jewish nation . All other nations were sunk in ...
... Gibbens sent forth to the world from the Old Common Council Room , in the city of Boston . Until after the , day of Penticost , the law and the gos- pel was principally conferred to the Jewish nation . All other nations were sunk in ...
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... and the doctrines that he preached unto the Ephe- sians , as Col. Gibbens now is in opposing the license law with all his might , and preventing its going into full operation , and effect its repeal by the next legislature ( 20 )
... and the doctrines that he preached unto the Ephe- sians , as Col. Gibbens now is in opposing the license law with all his might , and preventing its going into full operation , and effect its repeal by the next legislature ( 20 )
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... Gibbens is to the cause of temperance , notwith- standing all his empty and foolish pretentions to friend- ship for one of the best of causes , even the cause of Christianity . I consider that Col. Gibbens ' pretended friendship to the ...
... Gibbens is to the cause of temperance , notwith- standing all his empty and foolish pretentions to friend- ship for one of the best of causes , even the cause of Christianity . I consider that Col. Gibbens ' pretended friendship to the ...
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Page 33 - And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life ? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good ? there is none good but one, that is, God : but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Page 20 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Page 19 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 4 - ... the four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Page 36 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem ; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 42 - Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law ? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Page 22 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 14 - As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of GOD, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Page 39 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 33 - Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come and follow me.