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Page 30
These are my principles , this is my faith , not acquired by associating with any particular set of men , but built on the immutable word of God . Politics and religion ! what an idle distinction . It is as though on meeting you ...
These are my principles , this is my faith , not acquired by associating with any particular set of men , but built on the immutable word of God . Politics and religion ! what an idle distinction . It is as though on meeting you ...
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I put spiritual things first , because revelation and reason alike give the pre - eminence to that which is enduring : but faith is of all things the most practical : and if there be a statute book that even to the minutest particular ...
I put spiritual things first , because revelation and reason alike give the pre - eminence to that which is enduring : but faith is of all things the most practical : and if there be a statute book that even to the minutest particular ...
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... but to the working of a system , the life - spring of which is exterminating enmity to the Protestant faith and name , and which would produce to - morrow the self - same effects , if occasion required and opportunity admitted it .
... but to the working of a system , the life - spring of which is exterminating enmity to the Protestant faith and name , and which would produce to - morrow the self - same effects , if occasion required and opportunity admitted it .
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... will not , even humanly speaking , grow up in that state of estrangement naturally ripening into enmity , that must result from the one being taught to shun and to dread what to the other is a supreme rule of faith and of practice .
... will not , even humanly speaking , grow up in that state of estrangement naturally ripening into enmity , that must result from the one being taught to shun and to dread what to the other is a supreme rule of faith and of practice .
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than while resting in the spot that bears so fearful a testimony to the blood - guiltiness in which their alienation from the faith of the gospel has involved them . I am about to leave Wexford , probably no more to revisit it ; and the ...
than while resting in the spot that bears so fearful a testimony to the blood - guiltiness in which their alienation from the faith of the gospel has involved them . I am about to leave Wexford , probably no more to revisit it ; and the ...
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