A Layman's Apology, for the Appointment of Clerical Chaplains by the Legislature of the State of New York: In a Series of Letters Addressed to Thomas Herttell, Member of Assembly for the City of New-York, 1833 |
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... Clergy to act in the present crisis , when they see themselves unjustly proscribed and excluded by modern Infidelity from the only small honor award- ed them in the distribution of constitutional privi- leges by the political fathers of ...
... Clergy to act in the present crisis , when they see themselves unjustly proscribed and excluded by modern Infidelity from the only small honor award- ed them in the distribution of constitutional privi- leges by the political fathers of ...
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... Clergy with their enemies should be conducted with all the moderation that frail hu- manity can call to its aid , and at the same time with all the firmness ; with zeal too , but zeal tem- pered by discretion . It may , I fear , be ...
... Clergy with their enemies should be conducted with all the moderation that frail hu- manity can call to its aid , and at the same time with all the firmness ; with zeal too , but zeal tem- pered by discretion . It may , I fear , be ...
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... Clergy would make it a point to treat sceptics , and even avowed . infidels , with the same attention that they do belie- vers . To come at the head , it is often necessary , and always justifiable , first to get possession of the heart ...
... Clergy would make it a point to treat sceptics , and even avowed . infidels , with the same attention that they do belie- vers . To come at the head , it is often necessary , and always justifiable , first to get possession of the heart ...
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... Clergy in this and the neighbor- ing states . From many of them I have received that hospitality and kindness which flow from Christian benevolence ; and have , at the same time , witnessed their fidelity to the cause of their Divine ...
... Clergy in this and the neighbor- ing states . From many of them I have received that hospitality and kindness which flow from Christian benevolence ; and have , at the same time , witnessed their fidelity to the cause of their Divine ...
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... clergy . " These were the precise words of De Witt Clinton , addressing himself to the writer of these letters : And certain I am , that he was no friend to a Church and State Alliance : But he , no doubt , saw the de- plorable decline ...
... clergy . " These were the precise words of De Witt Clinton , addressing himself to the writer of these letters : And certain I am , that he was no friend to a Church and State Alliance : But he , no doubt , saw the de- plorable decline ...
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Page 225 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Page 246 - I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation : He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 247 - Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 219 - For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Page 299 - In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your, sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either.
Page 250 - O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath : neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Page 221 - At that day ye shall ask in my name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you : for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 246 - And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Page 221 - But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above ;) or, Who shall descend into the deep ? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach...
Page 250 - Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.