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... common good , you think meanly of the blessing be- cause you never knew the want of it , and because your minds are so familiarized with the sight of its diffusion . Would you perceive how this theme towers amid all those ascriptions of ...
... common good , you think meanly of the blessing be- cause you never knew the want of it , and because your minds are so familiarized with the sight of its diffusion . Would you perceive how this theme towers amid all those ascriptions of ...
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... common or appropriate to human form . Do not suppose you have found a contradiction to our text , when you read that man was created in the image of his maker ; and that Moses , who must have well understood his nature , petition- ed to ...
... common or appropriate to human form . Do not suppose you have found a contradiction to our text , when you read that man was created in the image of his maker ; and that Moses , who must have well understood his nature , petition- ed to ...
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... common with the operations of matter ? -put these in the one scale . lition : place them in the other . mon ? What can there be common to the substances in in which they are found to exist ? All our difficulties and mistakes on this ...
... common with the operations of matter ? -put these in the one scale . lition : place them in the other . mon ? What can there be common to the substances in in which they are found to exist ? All our difficulties and mistakes on this ...
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... common . Our perceptions and reflections , and feelings and volitions not only may be , but actually are often occupied without the remotest reference to materiality or any of its rela- tions . They are employed about abstract truths ...
... common . Our perceptions and reflections , and feelings and volitions not only may be , but actually are often occupied without the remotest reference to materiality or any of its rela- tions . They are employed about abstract truths ...
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... attenuated matter . But the moment that rev- elation brought the truth to light , it was admitted and in- corporated into every system that could advance any pre- tensions to common sense or science . Within the bounds 44 SERMON II .
... attenuated matter . But the moment that rev- elation brought the truth to light , it was admitted and in- corporated into every system that could advance any pre- tensions to common sense or science . Within the bounds 44 SERMON II .
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Page 187 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water : whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished : but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same 242 COUNSELS FOB GOD'S CHILDREN.
Page 188 - King say unto them on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I •was a hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 10 - Let all the earth fear the Lord ; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done ; he commanded, and it stood fast.
Page 242 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 341 - Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie ; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Page 335 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Page 302 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 241 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 190 - And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Page 341 - I know thy works : behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it; for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.