The Parochial System: An Appeal to English ChurchmenJ.G. & F. Rivington, 1838 - 142 pages |
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... worldly condition of our poor would be changed . From the beginning , the Church relieved her own poor , and in parishes of due dimensions she might do so again . We begin a wrong course when we leave the poor in Christ to the ...
... worldly condition of our poor would be changed . From the beginning , the Church relieved her own poor , and in parishes of due dimensions she might do so again . We begin a wrong course when we leave the poor in Christ to the ...
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... worldly substance for Him . For while worldly liberality gives to relieve the natural sensation of compassion , the beneficence of a Christian looks farther and higher . " In Christ's poor members faith sees her Lord , and love ...
... worldly substance for Him . For while worldly liberality gives to relieve the natural sensation of compassion , the beneficence of a Christian looks farther and higher . " In Christ's poor members faith sees her Lord , and love ...
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... worldly substance ; or whether we will cast His words behind us , and trust to our silver and gold for our private and national prosperity . And is it visionary to expect that men will awake to a sense of such responsibility , of ...
... worldly substance ; or whether we will cast His words behind us , and trust to our silver and gold for our private and national prosperity . And is it visionary to expect that men will awake to a sense of such responsibility , of ...
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... the love of Christ , that we may learn , even in devoting our substance to His Church and to the poor , to be influenced by the love of worldly pleasure . • And yet one step farther have we gone . Having MODERN LIBERALITY . 53.
... the love of Christ , that we may learn , even in devoting our substance to His Church and to the poor , to be influenced by the love of worldly pleasure . • And yet one step farther have we gone . Having MODERN LIBERALITY . 53.
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... worldly property is not ex- clusively represented here , it is certainly one of those talents which we are thus to hold for a while , not as our own or given to us by God , as we are wont to say , but as His still , and only entrusted ...
... worldly property is not ex- clusively represented here , it is certainly one of those talents which we are thus to hold for a while , not as our own or given to us by God , as we are wont to say , but as His still , and only entrusted ...
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Page 74 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest : go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Page 62 - Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Page 57 - He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
Page 91 - Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Page 58 - And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness ; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Page 19 - There be many that say, Who will show us any good ? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Page 61 - If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 93 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 58 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 92 - Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for God loveth a cheerful giver.