The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety |
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... look impartially , ours will appear to have had fome- what of the fame operation . Thofe compaffions which the novelty it feems at first gave us to fufferers in this kind , feems now quite extinct ; so unconcern'd are we grown to every ...
... look impartially , ours will appear to have had fome- what of the fame operation . Thofe compaffions which the novelty it feems at first gave us to fufferers in this kind , feems now quite extinct ; so unconcern'd are we grown to every ...
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... look as if we triumpht in their miferies , found Mu- fick in the difcordant founds of their groans , and our own laughter ; and emulated that infamous barbarity of Ne- ro , who played while Rome burned ? ' Tis mentioned by the Prophet ...
... look as if we triumpht in their miferies , found Mu- fick in the difcordant founds of their groans , and our own laughter ; and emulated that infamous barbarity of Ne- ro , who played while Rome burned ? ' Tis mentioned by the Prophet ...
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... look abroad , the most tranfient glance will ferve to unravel all this hopeful fpecu- Tation , & fhew him thatChristendom may be as much Heathen as America : whereas ' tis ufually faid , that ill Manners produce good Laws , we have re ...
... look abroad , the most tranfient glance will ferve to unravel all this hopeful fpecu- Tation , & fhew him thatChristendom may be as much Heathen as America : whereas ' tis ufually faid , that ill Manners produce good Laws , we have re ...
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... look upon Christendom , as it is at this day weltring in the bloud , not of Mar- tyrdom but War , and will it be poffible for him acia to to think it owns a Gofpel of Peace ; or 24 The Character of Chriftian Practice , & c.Chap.2 .
... look upon Christendom , as it is at this day weltring in the bloud , not of Mar- tyrdom but War , and will it be poffible for him acia to to think it owns a Gofpel of Peace ; or 24 The Character of Chriftian Practice , & c.Chap.2 .
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... look on her only in the ugly dress our felves have put on , and that effect feems already too vifible among us : our lives have fo long confuted it that we triumph over it as a baffled thing ; and like Amnon loath it because we have ...
... look on her only in the ugly dress our felves have put on , and that effect feems already too vifible among us : our lives have fo long confuted it that we triumph over it as a baffled thing ; and like Amnon loath it because we have ...
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Page 5 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 405 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Page 10 - For, we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diflblved, we have a building of GOD, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 236 - Let us fall into the hands of God, and not into the hands of men; for they are severe and cruel judges of each other.•
Page 406 - If there be therefore any confolation in Chrift, if any comfort. of love, if any fellow/hip of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies ; fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the fame love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Page 247 - Certainly," says Bishop Fell, " the first propagators of our faith proceeded at another rate ; they well knew, that not the brain but'the heart was the proper soil of that celestial plant, and therefore did not amuse their proselytes with curious questions, but set them to the active part of their religion.