An essay on the sin and the evils of covetousnessE.C. Biddle, 1840 |
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... never yet produced all the practical and beneficent effects which might have been expected from a religion introduced by the authority of heaven , and confirmed by a series of the most august and striking miracles , nor has its empire ...
... never yet produced all the practical and beneficent effects which might have been expected from a religion introduced by the authority of heaven , and confirmed by a series of the most august and striking miracles , nor has its empire ...
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... never offered the least resistance ; after which they passed the night in the most extravagant exultation , at the greatness of the plunder they had acquired from the bodies of the slain . The Inca , in order to regain his liberty ...
... never offered the least resistance ; after which they passed the night in the most extravagant exultation , at the greatness of the plunder they had acquired from the bodies of the slain . The Inca , in order to regain his liberty ...
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... never been performed . Skulls and jaw - bones , legs and arms , were collected under pretence of being the relics of the primitive martyrs , and deposited in churches in order to procure the rich pre- sents of wealthy supplicants , who ...
... never been performed . Skulls and jaw - bones , legs and arms , were collected under pretence of being the relics of the primitive martyrs , and deposited in churches in order to procure the rich pre- sents of wealthy supplicants , who ...
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... never once ventured to take.t It was by the sale of such indulgences that Pope Leo X. carried forward the magnificent structure of St. Pe- ter's church at Rome . He published a system of indul- gences suited to all ranks and characters ...
... never once ventured to take.t It was by the sale of such indulgences that Pope Leo X. carried forward the magnificent structure of St. Pe- ter's church at Rome . He published a system of indul- gences suited to all ranks and characters ...
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... never before been exhibited with such effront- ery in any country under heaven . In such a state of things it was no wonder that ignorance prevailed , that morality was undermined , and the peculiar doctrines of Christianity thrown into ...
... never before been exhibited with such effront- ery in any country under heaven . In such a state of things it was no wonder that ignorance prevailed , that morality was undermined , and the peculiar doctrines of Christianity thrown into ...
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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.