An Essay on the Sin and the Evils of Covetousness: And the Happy Effects which Would Flow from a Spirit of Christian Beneficence. Illustrated by a Variety of Facts, Selected from Sacred and Civil History, and Other DocumentsRobinson, Pratt, 1836 - 318 էջ |
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... shelter in deserts and mountains , and in dens and caves of the earth . Hence it happened , that the spirit of genuine religion was almost evaporated ; carnal max- ims and policy were introduced ; the love of riches 14 INTRODUCTION .
... shelter in deserts and mountains , and in dens and caves of the earth . Hence it happened , that the spirit of genuine religion was almost evaporated ; carnal max- ims and policy were introduced ; the love of riches 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... Hence , it is descri- bed in scripture as 66 THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL , and de- signated by the term IDOLATRY ; a crime which , above all others , has a tendency to degrade the character of man , and to subvert the relations in which he ...
... Hence , it is descri- bed in scripture as 66 THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL , and de- signated by the term IDOLATRY ; a crime which , above all others , has a tendency to degrade the character of man , and to subvert the relations in which he ...
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... Hence when the British roused the indignation of their Amer- ican Colonies , by their despotic enactments and op- pressive taxations , a desolating and unnatural war en- sued , which cost Britain not only many thousands of valuable ...
... Hence when the British roused the indignation of their Amer- ican Colonies , by their despotic enactments and op- pressive taxations , a desolating and unnatural war en- sued , which cost Britain not only many thousands of valuable ...
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... Hence , a pound of butter has fre- quently been found with a quantity of Scotch porridge in its interior ; milk mixed with chalk and water ; sugar mixed with white sand ; the under part of a chest of tea of an inferior quality to that ...
... Hence , a pound of butter has fre- quently been found with a quantity of Scotch porridge in its interior ; milk mixed with chalk and water ; sugar mixed with white sand ; the under part of a chest of tea of an inferior quality to that ...
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... hence , we find , among persons of this description , more instances of suicide , and more numerous exam- ples of family feuds , contentions , and separations , than among any other class of general society . So that there is no reason ...
... hence , we find , among persons of this description , more instances of suicide , and more numerous exam- ples of family feuds , contentions , and separations , than among any other class of general society . So that there is no reason ...
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Էջ 116 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Էջ 242 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Էջ 176 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Էջ 306 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Էջ 191 - Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the Name of the LORD thy GOD, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.
Էջ 117 - Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Էջ 213 - And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Էջ 176 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Էջ 155 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Էջ 129 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.