Principia: A Series of Essays on the Principles of Evil Manifesting Themselves in These Last Times in Religion, Philosophy, and Politics |
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... hand of an attorney , began it by commending his soul to God . The sanction of an oath was looked for , as the best security from persons in all situations : from church- wardens , merchants , servants , soldiers , tenants attorn- ing ...
... hand of an attorney , began it by commending his soul to God . The sanction of an oath was looked for , as the best security from persons in all situations : from church- wardens , merchants , servants , soldiers , tenants attorn- ing ...
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... hands of mortals . The Mahometans even show greater respect than we do ourselves to the name of " Jesus . " As the Jews never mention the name of God , without adding " Blessed be He , " or of Moses , without saying " Peace be with Him ...
... hands of mortals . The Mahometans even show greater respect than we do ourselves to the name of " Jesus . " As the Jews never mention the name of God , without adding " Blessed be He , " or of Moses , without saying " Peace be with Him ...
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... hands of every government and crowned head , if they should choose to exercise it . The Queen's speech of the session 1841 contained no single expression of thanks to Almighty God for the very signal successes of our forces in all parts ...
... hands of every government and crowned head , if they should choose to exercise it . The Queen's speech of the session 1841 contained no single expression of thanks to Almighty God for the very signal successes of our forces in all parts ...
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... hand from the very highest authority . The Duke of Wellington , who had taken a view of all nations , and had an extensive experience himself of very many , expresses himself thus , in his D speech to the House of Lords upon the ...
... hand from the very highest authority . The Duke of Wellington , who had taken a view of all nations , and had an extensive experience himself of very many , expresses himself thus , in his D speech to the House of Lords upon the ...
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... hand to mouth , and is always cheerful , and trusts that God will give him his next day's meal . * It was faith in a poor woman who gave away her last six- pence , saying that she knew that God would return it her . It would be faith in ...
... hand to mouth , and is always cheerful , and trusts that God will give him his next day's meal . * It was faith in a poor woman who gave away her last six- pence , saying that she knew that God would return it her . It would be faith in ...
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Page 290 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: 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 344 - Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Page 427 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble.
Page 339 - And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Page 327 - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Page 346 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 162 - And Enoch also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying ; Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 159 - For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Page 342 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Page 342 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.