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... and his services in the cause of religion , I cannot , in this , coincide with him in sentiment . It * In the numbers of the Messenger for June , July and August . appears to me , that the moment we admit the 16 On Sin .
... and his services in the cause of religion , I cannot , in this , coincide with him in sentiment . It * In the numbers of the Messenger for June , July and August . appears to me , that the moment we admit the 16 On Sin .
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... cause of his sinfulness from him to his Maker ; for , at his birth , he is evidently what God makes him , and intends him to be . Second causes may tend to hide the agency of the Almighty from our view , but these are clearly only ...
... cause of his sinfulness from him to his Maker ; for , at his birth , he is evidently what God makes him , and intends him to be . Second causes may tend to hide the agency of the Almighty from our view , but these are clearly only ...
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... cause of its universality . Sin is the transgression of those laws which God has prescrib ed to us for the purpose of raising us to the rank of spiritual beings ; and as all of us have physical bodies , all have incli nations and ...
... cause of its universality . Sin is the transgression of those laws which God has prescrib ed to us for the purpose of raising us to the rank of spiritual beings ; and as all of us have physical bodies , all have incli nations and ...
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... cause , to themselves , to truth , to the church , to our rising country , to posterity , to the hopes of freedom in coming time , that now in this forming state of society , we should cast the seed far and wide . We have done something ...
... cause , to themselves , to truth , to the church , to our rising country , to posterity , to the hopes of freedom in coming time , that now in this forming state of society , we should cast the seed far and wide . We have done something ...
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... cause any creature to live whose existence would not , on the whole , be more productive of happiness than pain . " Now the truth too contained in this . view of Optimism we admit . We feel assured , undoubtingly assured , that the ...
... cause any creature to live whose existence would not , on the whole , be more productive of happiness than pain . " Now the truth too contained in this . view of Optimism we admit . We feel assured , undoubtingly assured , that the ...
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Page 506 - Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Page 20 - For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit.
Page 58 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first sight if the bird be flown ; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Page 58 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear; It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove.
Page 19 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 20 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 155 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 505 - And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage...
Page 400 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. 35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home ; for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
Page 20 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.