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Page v
... influences are perpetually acting upon our minds , directing our pursuits , and shaping our char- acters . Who are these ? —They are not celestial intelligences , employed for the glory of God in the service of man . They are not fallen ...
... influences are perpetually acting upon our minds , directing our pursuits , and shaping our char- acters . Who are these ? —They are not celestial intelligences , employed for the glory of God in the service of man . They are not fallen ...
Page viii
... influences of Sa- tan and his emissaries who may have access to the same ; as children do thus , in a great degree , grow up to be what examples and circumstances make them , or less so is every generation collectively more fashioned ...
... influences of Sa- tan and his emissaries who may have access to the same ; as children do thus , in a great degree , grow up to be what examples and circumstances make them , or less so is every generation collectively more fashioned ...
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... influences we are illustrating , is so very imperfect , that they see them but as the half - opened eye saw " men like trees walking . " Their records of events and ideas of truth are correspondingly out of due proportion ; -in ...
... influences we are illustrating , is so very imperfect , that they see them but as the half - opened eye saw " men like trees walking . " Their records of events and ideas of truth are correspondingly out of due proportion ; -in ...
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... influence of the best examples ; and whose laws , in- stitutions , and literature are most conformed to these . Thus Spain and Portugal are exceedingly low , be- cause almost unacquainted with the glories of Greece and Rome , while they ...
... influence of the best examples ; and whose laws , in- stitutions , and literature are most conformed to these . Thus Spain and Portugal are exceedingly low , be- cause almost unacquainted with the glories of Greece and Rome , while they ...
Page xiv
... influence for which we contend , over the well - being and well - doing of consecutive generations . Were all knowledge , remembrance , and record of past ages , obliterated ; all books of science , religion , eloquence , and poesy ...
... influence for which we contend , over the well - being and well - doing of consecutive generations . Were all knowledge , remembrance , and record of past ages , obliterated ; all books of science , religion , eloquence , and poesy ...
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Page 59 - Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ...
Page 130 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 340 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 306 - Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Page 237 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Page 336 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 210 - Seeing then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 249 - And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 159 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 159 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.