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... laws to controul and " regulate our conduct ? ” EVERY man fhould put this question to himself , upon the first dawnings of knowledge and reflexion . Grown up to maturity , in the ferment of swelling pas fions , and in a world presenting ...
... laws to controul and " regulate our conduct ? ” EVERY man fhould put this question to himself , upon the first dawnings of knowledge and reflexion . Grown up to maturity , in the ferment of swelling pas fions , and in a world presenting ...
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... law but will ; no restraint , but want of power to compafs my defire . Under this impulfe , we take our dif- ferent courses : one pursues his pleasures through the most facred and endearing relations ; another buildeth his house by ...
... law but will ; no restraint , but want of power to compafs my defire . Under this impulfe , we take our dif- ferent courses : one pursues his pleasures through the most facred and endearing relations ; another buildeth his house by ...
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... laws , and fet his authority at defiance ? In vain shall they hope to fleep in the duft for ever : the power , that first formed them , fhall awaken them to their doom . In vain fhall they cry to the mountains and to the rocks to fall ...
... laws , and fet his authority at defiance ? In vain shall they hope to fleep in the duft for ever : the power , that first formed them , fhall awaken them to their doom . In vain fhall they cry to the mountains and to the rocks to fall ...
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... laws fhall be fupported , and the wisdom of virtue approved in the fight of the whole creation . THE world is at prefent in a fallen state . The Almighty is , through the mediation of his bleffed Son , raising it by degrees , by a ...
... laws fhall be fupported , and the wisdom of virtue approved in the fight of the whole creation . THE world is at prefent in a fallen state . The Almighty is , through the mediation of his bleffed Son , raising it by degrees , by a ...
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... rule , or riches corrupt , or artifice elude , or hypocrify deceive - and that too , in a manner fo public and vifi- ble , as to fupport the majefty of his laws C 2 laws in the fight of the whole creation . WE SERMON II . 35.
... rule , or riches corrupt , or artifice elude , or hypocrify deceive - and that too , in a manner fo public and vifi- ble , as to fupport the majefty of his laws C 2 laws in the fight of the whole creation . WE SERMON II . 35.
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Page 101 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines : the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold : and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; Yet I will rejoice in the Lord : I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 185 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 295 - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Page 239 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands.
Page 86 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 189 - And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 191 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 360 - ALMIGHTY God, who shewest to them that be in error the light of Thy truth, to the intent that they may return into the way of righteousness ; Grant unto all them that are admitted into the fellowship of Christ's Religion, that they may eschew those things that are contrary to their profession, and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same ; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Page 274 - Though the common experience and the ordinary course of things have justly a mighty influence on the minds of men, to make them give or refuse credit to any thing proposed to their belief; yet there is one case, wherein the strangeness of the fact lessens not the assent to a fair testimony given of it. For where such supernatural events are suitable to ends aimed at by him, who has the power to change the course of nature, there, under...
Page 233 - The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; fo is every one that is born of the Spirit.