Social Evils: And Their Remedy, Volume 1Smith, Elder and Company, 1837 - Great Britain |
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... present . It is not my proper office , as a Pastor of Christ's flock , to point out the faults and the remedy in the organization of the body politic . Perhaps I am not blinder than others to those faults , and , perhaps , many others ...
... present . It is not my proper office , as a Pastor of Christ's flock , to point out the faults and the remedy in the organization of the body politic . Perhaps I am not blinder than others to those faults , and , perhaps , many others ...
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... present order of things in church and state ; indeed , it seemed to spare neither men nor measures . Once or twice I turned round and said , " Your book , my friend ! seems no great shakes , for it reads for all the world like the ...
... present order of things in church and state ; indeed , it seemed to spare neither men nor measures . Once or twice I turned round and said , " Your book , my friend ! seems no great shakes , for it reads for all the world like the ...
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... present state of so- ciety , " he continued , " we need a more enlightened system ! a purer morality ! Things must be new modelled , and , though it is the interest of juggling priests , and time - serving statesmen , to keep you in the ...
... present state of so- ciety , " he continued , " we need a more enlightened system ! a purer morality ! Things must be new modelled , and , though it is the interest of juggling priests , and time - serving statesmen , to keep you in the ...
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... present advanced state of society . " This step was taken in haste , but a haste which I need not have made , had I not purposely shut my eyes to many reasonable objections which sprung up in my mind to oppose my plan . I was ...
... present advanced state of society . " This step was taken in haste , but a haste which I need not have made , had I not purposely shut my eyes to many reasonable objections which sprung up in my mind to oppose my plan . I was ...
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... present day there are many more professors of religion ; and among the merely professing , and among really pious but in- consistent Christians now living , a system the direct contrary , is very common , of giving the godly pre- cept ...
... present day there are many more professors of religion ; and among the merely professing , and among really pious but in- consistent Christians now living , a system the direct contrary , is very common , of giving the godly pre- cept ...
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Page 111 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 100 - And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 94 - Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching : verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Page 79 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him ; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Page 92 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 99 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Page 82 - My good Child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace ; which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer.
Page 1 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 27 - In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Page 127 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.