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... nocent blood . But he had as good a natural right to do both , as Col. Gibbens and others have to traffic in ar- dent spirits and fill the land with it , that men may " drink Lord , and in Je- and be drunken . " ( 26 )
... nocent blood . But he had as good a natural right to do both , as Col. Gibbens and others have to traffic in ar- dent spirits and fill the land with it , that men may " drink Lord , and in Je- and be drunken . " ( 26 )
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... drunken . " But Manassch had a full and perfect right to take " away the strange gods , and the idols out of the house of the Lord , and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the rusalem , and cast them out of ...
... drunken . " But Manassch had a full and perfect right to take " away the strange gods , and the idols out of the house of the Lord , and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the rusalem , and cast them out of ...
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... drunken also , that thou mayest look on their nakedness ! " Isaiah says , " Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes , and prudent in their own sight ! Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine , and men of strength to mingle ...
... drunken also , that thou mayest look on their nakedness ! " Isaiah says , " Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes , and prudent in their own sight ! Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine , and men of strength to mingle ...
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... drunken , and on those that get drunken , at the present day , as well as in for- mer days . No man has any more right to be intemperate in eat- ing than he has in drinking , to be a glutton than to be a drunkard . Both are an ...
... drunken , and on those that get drunken , at the present day , as well as in for- mer days . No man has any more right to be intemperate in eat- ing than he has in drinking , to be a glutton than to be a drunkard . Both are an ...
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... drunken feast . I do not in the least blame Vashti the queen for refusing to obey the king's command , and appear before him and his princes . She had much better suffer wrong than do wrong . The king was altogether in the wrong and not ...
... drunken feast . I do not in the least blame Vashti the queen for refusing to obey the king's command , and appear before him and his princes . She had much better suffer wrong than do wrong . The king was altogether in the wrong and not ...
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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.