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 pagina's |
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Pagina iv
... course of four or five months , and in the midst of many interruptions and avocations , it is hoped , the critical reader will candidly overlook any slight inaccuracies it may contain . Should any pecuniary emolument be derived from the ...
... course of four or five months , and in the midst of many interruptions and avocations , it is hoped , the critical reader will candidly overlook any slight inaccuracies it may contain . Should any pecuniary emolument be derived from the ...
Pagina 13
... course and was glorified , " and multitudes both of men and women , of the higher and the lower ranks of society , formerly immersed in all the vices and abominations of heathenism , were " turned from darkness to light , and from the ...
... course and was glorified , " and multitudes both of men and women , of the higher and the lower ranks of society , formerly immersed in all the vices and abominations of heathenism , were " turned from darkness to light , and from the ...
Pagina 48
... course without much reprobation from general and even Christian society , especially if they have acquired the habit of dissimulation and hypocritical canting . But the principle which pervades the souls of such persons , if permitted ...
... course without much reprobation from general and even Christian society , especially if they have acquired the habit of dissimulation and hypocritical canting . But the principle which pervades the souls of such persons , if permitted ...
Pagina 56
... course of his providence , God frequently causes such persons to behold their sin in their punishment , by blasting their hopes of worldly gain , and sweeping away their treasures by unforeseen accidents and ad- verse dispensations ...
... course of his providence , God frequently causes such persons to behold their sin in their punishment , by blasting their hopes of worldly gain , and sweeping away their treasures by unforeseen accidents and ad- verse dispensations ...
Pagina 57
... course he pursues - that he ought not to live merely for the gratification of his own hu- mor or pleasure , but for the good of mankind - and that there are certain physical and moral laws which he OF COVETOUSNESS . 57.
... course he pursues - that he ought not to live merely for the gratification of his own hu- mor or pleasure , but for the good of mankind - and that there are certain physical and moral laws which he OF COVETOUSNESS . 57.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.