SermonsJacob Halsey and Company near the Episcopal Church, 1799 - 437 pages |
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... appears , their pretended principles are not able to fuftain them : they find indeed that they had no principles - they were only the deceitful dictates of a fenfual heart , which they had mistaken for principles . Why do their opinions ...
... appears , their pretended principles are not able to fuftain them : they find indeed that they had no principles - they were only the deceitful dictates of a fenfual heart , which they had mistaken for principles . Why do their opinions ...
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... appear in their true lights , when the world which had deceived him is vanishing from his fight , when he feels himself drawing near that eternal existence which now affumes an awful reality , and the terrors of divine juftice impofe a ...
... appear in their true lights , when the world which had deceived him is vanishing from his fight , when he feels himself drawing near that eternal existence which now affumes an awful reality , and the terrors of divine juftice impofe a ...
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... appear in their most pernicious and deteftable form when they invade , as , in fome inftances , even in this young country they have done , that fex whofe peculiar glory is modesty and chasti- ty . Religion fhould always find an asylum ...
... appear in their most pernicious and deteftable form when they invade , as , in fome inftances , even in this young country they have done , that fex whofe peculiar glory is modesty and chasti- ty . Religion fhould always find an asylum ...
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... appear , if it be adorned with that piety which makes all men equal again by the benevolence and humility of its fpirit ! " Godliness is profitable to all things , hav- ing the promife of the life that now is , and of that which is to ...
... appear , if it be adorned with that piety which makes all men equal again by the benevolence and humility of its fpirit ! " Godliness is profitable to all things , hav- ing the promife of the life that now is , and of that which is to ...
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... appears to have been intoxicated with his good fortune , and to have ceafed to reflect on the uncertainty of human things , and the great interests of his immortal exiflence . Thus occupied and diffipated , in the moment when he leaft ...
... appears to have been intoxicated with his good fortune , and to have ceafed to reflect on the uncertainty of human things , and the great interests of his immortal exiflence . Thus occupied and diffipated , in the moment when he leaft ...
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Page 389 - As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire ; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 264 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 97 - And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom : the rich man also died, and was buried. And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.
Page 424 - And the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon, to shine in it ; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 186 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax: it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Page 208 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright : At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 331 - For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Page 261 - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you : that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 389 - He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Page 357 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh ; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...