An essay on the sin and the evils of covetousnessE.C. Biddle, 1840 |
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... IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY BY THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE , " - " THE MENTAL ILLUMINATION AND MORAL IMPROVEMENT OF MANKIND , " etc. etc. VOL . VI . PHILADELPHIA : EDWARD C. BIDDLE , 3 MINOR STREET . STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN ..... PHILADELPHIA ...
... IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY BY THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE , " - " THE MENTAL ILLUMINATION AND MORAL IMPROVEMENT OF MANKIND , " etc. etc. VOL . VI . PHILADELPHIA : EDWARD C. BIDDLE , 3 MINOR STREET . STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN ..... PHILADELPHIA ...
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... improvement both of Christian and Civil society . Impressed with a deep conviction of this truth , the author intended , sometime ago , to address his fellow - men on the subject ; but other engagements prevented him from entering on ...
... improvement both of Christian and Civil society . Impressed with a deep conviction of this truth , the author intended , sometime ago , to address his fellow - men on the subject ; but other engagements prevented him from entering on ...
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... improved , and the world enlightened and regenerated . Having been com- posed in the course of four or five months ... improvement . BROUGHTY FERRY DOG DUNDEE , April , 1836 . GENERAL CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Remarks on the necessity ...
... improved , and the world enlightened and regenerated . Having been com- posed in the course of four or five months ... improvement . BROUGHTY FERRY DOG DUNDEE , April , 1836 . GENERAL CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Remarks on the necessity ...
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... improvement of society , 154. What would be the consequences , were it universally to prevail , 156 - it infallibly leads to misery in the life to come , 159 . CHAPTERV On the PRINCIPLES by which Christians should be directed in the ap ...
... improvement of society , 154. What would be the consequences , were it universally to prevail , 156 - it infallibly leads to misery in the life to come , 159 . CHAPTERV On the PRINCIPLES by which Christians should be directed in the ap ...
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... Improvement of general society - removal of physical evils , 197. Original and present state of the globe - evils which require to be removed , and scriptural pre- dictions in relation to this subject , 197-205 . Universal education ...
... Improvement of general society - removal of physical evils , 197. Original and present state of the globe - evils which require to be removed , and scriptural pre- dictions in relation to this subject , 197-205 . Universal education ...
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Page 107 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Page 223 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Page 120 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 164 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 180 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 165 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 200 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys : I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 145 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 212 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a Light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 121 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.