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 12
... things , 303 - on the promises and declarations of God - selection of Scripture passages calculated to inspire the Christian with _contentment and dependence on God for his temporal support , 305-8 . Sentiments on this subject , and ...
... things , 303 - on the promises and declarations of God - selection of Scripture passages calculated to inspire the Christian with _contentment and dependence on God for his temporal support , 305-8 . Sentiments on this subject , and ...
Pagina 19
... things of this life . We may lawfully de- sire water to quench our thirst , food to nourish our bo- dies , clothes to cover us , and comfortable shelter and accommodation — if such desires be regulated by scrip- ture and reason , and ...
... things of this life . We may lawfully de- sire water to quench our thirst , food to nourish our bo- dies , clothes to cover us , and comfortable shelter and accommodation — if such desires be regulated by scrip- ture and reason , and ...
Pagina 20
... thing in the system of nature is so arranged as to pro- duce pleasure and sensitive enjoyment , when used with moderation , and according to the design intended by the Creator . To condemn the moderate use of sensi- tive enjoyments , or ...
... thing in the system of nature is so arranged as to pro- duce pleasure and sensitive enjoyment , when used with moderation , and according to the design intended by the Creator . To condemn the moderate use of sensi- tive enjoyments , or ...
Pagina 21
... thing that was pleasant to the eye and delicious to the taste - yet they dared to put forth their hands to the forbidden fruit , from the covetous propensity of enjoying what was not their own , and the ambitious desire of being " like ...
... thing that was pleasant to the eye and delicious to the taste - yet they dared to put forth their hands to the forbidden fruit , from the covetous propensity of enjoying what was not their own , and the ambitious desire of being " like ...
Pagina 29
... things , can produce no great harm , when actions directly criminal are not re- sorted to for its gratification , -that , to take a quarter of an ounce from a pound of sugar , an inch from a yard of print , a " remnant " from a suit of ...
... things , can produce no great harm , when actions directly criminal are not re- sorted to for its gratification , -that , to take a quarter of an ounce from a pound of sugar , an inch from a yard of print , a " remnant " from a suit of ...
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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.