The Works...: With a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Volume 1G. Cowie and Company, 1837 |
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... less honourable to his feelings as a Christian , than to his talents as a scholar . After say- ing what could be said in favour of the system of heathen philoso- phy , for which he contended , he shows its comparative nothingness , when ...
... less honourable to his feelings as a Christian , than to his talents as a scholar . After say- ing what could be said in favour of the system of heathen philoso- phy , for which he contended , he shows its comparative nothingness , when ...
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... less than the versatility of talent , with which , after entering the lists as the antagonist of Locke , he could devote a portion of his time to the composition of hymns for children . At the first introduction of Sunday schools in the ...
... less than the versatility of talent , with which , after entering the lists as the antagonist of Locke , he could devote a portion of his time to the composition of hymns for children . At the first introduction of Sunday schools in the ...
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... less difficult to frame an apology ; though even in him we feel that it contradicts his own ex- press advice in the excellent charge which he had given to his clergy : but let not any one , who has only the excuse of indolence to offer ...
... less difficult to frame an apology ; though even in him we feel that it contradicts his own ex- press advice in the excellent charge which he had given to his clergy : but let not any one , who has only the excuse of indolence to offer ...
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... Less concise than the one , and less diffuse than the other , he is more convincing than either , and more luminous than both . To say that every infidel , who sits down to peruse the work of Paley , will rise up convinced , is to ...
... Less concise than the one , and less diffuse than the other , he is more convincing than either , and more luminous than both . To say that every infidel , who sits down to peruse the work of Paley , will rise up convinced , is to ...
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... less than the law allows them . Still , when contentions do and must arise , between persons who grudge to the ministers of religion not only the comforts but even the necessaries of life , and those who , being compelled to " live by ...
... less than the law allows them . Still , when contentions do and must arise , between persons who grudge to the ministers of religion not only the comforts but even the necessaries of life , and those who , being compelled to " live by ...
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Page 275 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 62 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 236 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 197 - It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Page 275 - This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord ; bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Page 324 - For, for this cause pay ye tribute also : for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues : tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom ; fear to whom fear ; honour to whom honour.
Page 159 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 281 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates : that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 152 - And inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me...
Page 281 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.