A Discourse, Before the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others in North America: Delivered on the 1st of November, 1804 |
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A Discourse, Before the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians ... Levi Frisbie No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 34 - To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Page 35 - The gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity.
Page 31 - I fay unto you, inafinuch as ye have done it unto one of the leaft of thefe , my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 35 - In the case of religion, however, it must be considered that if by the hope of reward be understood the love and desire of virtuous enjoyment, or of the very practice and exercise of virtue in another life, the expectation or hope of this kind is so far from being derogatory to virtue, that it is an evidence of our loving it the more sincerely and for its own sake.
Page 5 - who was to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, " and the glory of his people Israel," and we know that the whole nation of the Samaritans acknowledged the same truth.
Page 3 - And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them : and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city.
Page 35 - Whoever, therefore, by any strong persuasion or settled judgment, thinks in the main that virtue causes happiness and vice misery, carries with him that security and assistance to virtue which is required.
Page 38 - Samuel Williams, LL. D. Mr. William Woodbridge. FORM OF A BEQUEST, OR LEGACY. Item : I give and bequeath the sum of to the Society for propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in...
Page 35 - Gospel its own -witness" asserts that " wherever Society is established, there it is necessary to have religion, for religion •which watches over the crimes that are secret^ is, in fact, the only law which a man carries about with him ; the only one which places the punishment at the side of the guilt ; and which operates as forcibly in solitude and darkness as in the broad and open face of day.
Page 11 - and all other Christian acts, however good they may be, do not alone constitute the aim of our Christian life, although they serve as the indispensable means of reaching this aim. The true aim of our Christian life is to acquire the Holy Spirit of God. 'We must begin by a right faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came into the world to save sinners, and by winning for ourselves the grace of the Holy Spirit who brings into our hearts the kingdom of God and lays for us the path to win...