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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... honor which cometh from God alone . " 7 Of all the practical requisitions of Christianity , there is none which seems to be so much overlooked as the duty of contributing , with liberality , for the extension of the Gospel , the ...
... honor which cometh from God alone . " 7 Of all the practical requisitions of Christianity , there is none which seems to be so much overlooked as the duty of contributing , with liberality , for the extension of the Gospel , the ...
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... honors conferred on the church increased , the heavenly zeal of its votaries diminished , and a spirit of Covetousness , and a desire for worldly honors and distinctions , began to prevail throughout all the official departments ...
... honors conferred on the church increased , the heavenly zeal of its votaries diminished , and a spirit of Covetousness , and a desire for worldly honors and distinctions , began to prevail throughout all the official departments ...
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... honors is the great object of pursuit , and the ultimate end of human existence . For men will make sacrifices , and expose themselves to incon- veniences , privations , and dangers , to acquire money , which they would refuse to do ...
... honors is the great object of pursuit , and the ultimate end of human existence . For men will make sacrifices , and expose themselves to incon- veniences , privations , and dangers , to acquire money , which they would refuse to do ...
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... honor and honesty of every one who made high pretensions to sanctity and evangelical religion . Yet many such nefarious practices are overlooked in Christian churches , as scarcely worthy of censure , especially , if the guilty in ...
... honor and honesty of every one who made high pretensions to sanctity and evangelical religion . Yet many such nefarious practices are overlooked in Christian churches , as scarcely worthy of censure , especially , if the guilty in ...
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... honors to an immortal , and on the unprofitableness of riches to the irreligious , replied , " true , Doctor , true , the only val- uable riches are in heaven . What would it avail me now , to be the Archbishop of Canterbury ! Disease ...
... honors to an immortal , and on the unprofitableness of riches to the irreligious , replied , " true , Doctor , true , the only val- uable riches are in heaven . What would it avail me now , to be the Archbishop of Canterbury ! Disease ...
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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.