Discourses on Various SubjectsD. Felt & Company, 1835 - 299 páginas |
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... happiness to be per sonally acquainted . To his friends and he cannot deny him 、 self the pleasure of including the few that he claims to be of that number in England -- he offers this collection of Dis . courses , with as much anxiety ...
... happiness to be per sonally acquainted . To his friends and he cannot deny him 、 self the pleasure of including the few that he claims to be of that number in England -- he offers this collection of Dis . courses , with as much anxiety ...
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... happiness in low and unworthy objects - that is his sin : but he does not find it there - and that is his glory . No , he does not find it there : he returns dis- appointed and melancholy ; and there is nothing on earth so eloquent as ...
... happiness in low and unworthy objects - that is his sin : but he does not find it there - and that is his glory . No , he does not find it there : he returns dis- appointed and melancholy ; and there is nothing on earth so eloquent as ...
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... happiness caused by sin , -it is not these alone that give testimony to a better nature . There is a higher power that bears sway in the human heart . It is remorse - sacred , uncompromising remorse , that will hear of no selfish ...
... happiness caused by sin , -it is not these alone that give testimony to a better nature . There is a higher power that bears sway in the human heart . It is remorse - sacred , uncompromising remorse , that will hear of no selfish ...
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... happiness , an example of goodness that shall disarm such gloomy and chill- ing skepticism , and win men's hearts to virtue . have received many benefits , from my fellow - beings . But no gift , in their power to bestow , can ever ...
... happiness , an example of goodness that shall disarm such gloomy and chill- ing skepticism , and win men's hearts to virtue . have received many benefits , from my fellow - beings . But no gift , in their power to bestow , can ever ...
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... be . And thus ends their comment , and with it , all reasonable endeavour to make themselves better and happier . If this state of prevailing opinion be as certainly erroneous , as it is evidently dangerous , it is DISCOURSE III . 47.
... be . And thus ends their comment , and with it , all reasonable endeavour to make themselves better and happier . If this state of prevailing opinion be as certainly erroneous , as it is evidently dangerous , it is DISCOURSE III . 47.
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admiration affections amidst answer art thou awaken awful beauty believe blessed breath brethren cern character children of men Christian cold conscience creature dark death DISCOURSE divine divine grace doubt duty dwell earth earthly eternity evil faith fear feeling forms friends future gion glorious glory God's Gospel habit happiness heaven holy holy record honour hope human heart human nature immortal indifference indulgence infinite interest irreligion language light live look meditation ment mercy mind misery moral moral universe ness never noble objects pass passions perhaps piety pity pleasure prayer principle racter rational reason religion religious sensibility repeat retribution scene selfish sense sensual sinful sinner sleep solemn sorrow soul speak spirit strong sublime suffer sure teaching thee thing thou THOU ART MINDFUL thought timate tion toil true truth turb virtue voice whole wisdom words worldly wrong
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Página 227 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Página 290 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Página 281 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he, being dead, yet speaketh.
Página 221 - But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Página 232 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Página 238 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Página 294 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Página 187 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear...
Página 92 - Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, &c.
Página 254 - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood.