Sermons on the Dignity of Man: And the Value of the Objects Principally Relating to Human Happiness, Volume 1Thomas & Sturtevant, 1807 - Dignity |
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... likewise taught me , that even people of more slender knowledge , and of inferior cultivation , learn more from such discourses , so soon as they cease to be strange to them , than from others , composed in a Hebrew idiom , and exactly ...
... likewise taught me , that even people of more slender knowledge , and of inferior cultivation , learn more from such discourses , so soon as they cease to be strange to them , than from others , composed in a Hebrew idiom , and exactly ...
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... likewise in this respect the pathetic exhorta- tions of ZOLLIKOFER wrought upon it . And was it possible that the politer parts of science , or the belles letters , as they are called , did not contribute their share towards these at ...
... likewise in this respect the pathetic exhorta- tions of ZOLLIKOFER wrought upon it . And was it possible that the politer parts of science , or the belles letters , as they are called , did not contribute their share towards these at ...
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... likewise had not the happiness to possess him for a much longer pe- riod ; he being invited to Isenburg as preacher there . Yet neither was this station the theatre which providence had marked out for disseminating by his talents and ...
... likewise had not the happiness to possess him for a much longer pe- riod ; he being invited to Isenburg as preacher there . Yet neither was this station the theatre which providence had marked out for disseminating by his talents and ...
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... likewise . A considerable num- ber of young members of the university eagerly pressed to his discourses , listening to him , as may well be imagined with the utmost attention , imperceptibly learning by exam- ple , how a subject should ...
... likewise . A considerable num- ber of young members of the university eagerly pressed to his discourses , listening to him , as may well be imagined with the utmost attention , imperceptibly learning by exam- ple , how a subject should ...
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... likewise , and this adds infinitely to his dignity , this sets him in his perfect light , man is the image of God . He is descended from him , is his offspring , and bears the visible traces of his deriva- tion from heaven , and his ...
... likewise , and this adds infinitely to his dignity , this sets him in his perfect light , man is the image of God . He is descended from him , is his offspring , and bears the visible traces of his deriva- tion from heaven , and his ...
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Page 211 - And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.
Page 170 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 384 - It is a faithful saying : For if we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him : if we suffer, we shall also reign with Him...
Page 189 - They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Page 126 - For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Page 317 - Savior says, that it will profit a man nothing to have gained the whole world, if he lose his own soul ; or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul...
Page 267 - I am the way, the truth, and the life ;" — " I am the light of the world," — are declarations of a similar import.
Page 402 - CHRIST ; showing, of a truth, that " the sufferings of this present time are not to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.
Page 246 - His kingdom is not in meats and drinks, but in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Page 385 - I am the resurrection, and the life: he that bclieveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.