Mammon: Or, Covetousness the Sin of the Christian Church |
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... evil a primary place in his Essay . He is , however , free to confess , that had he not done so from a sense of obligation , he should most likely have done it from choice , since he deems it an appropriate introduction to the prin ...
... evil a primary place in his Essay . He is , however , free to confess , that had he not done so from a sense of obligation , he should most likely have done it from choice , since he deems it an appropriate introduction to the prin ...
Page xii
... evil under consideration . In that case , it would have been obvious to insist on a variety of familiar prudential maxims . But the love of money can only be remedied by " the expulsive power of a new affection . " If we would not have ...
... evil under consideration . In that case , it would have been obvious to insist on a variety of familiar prudential maxims . But the love of money can only be remedied by " the expulsive power of a new affection . " If we would not have ...
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... evil , and composing his ethics ; but , as if to show the impotence of his own pre- cepts , " he was accused of having amassed the most ample riches , " a circumstance which , though not the ostensible , was no doubt the real , cause of ...
... evil , and composing his ethics ; but , as if to show the impotence of his own pre- cepts , " he was accused of having amassed the most ample riches , " a circumstance which , though not the ostensible , was no doubt the real , cause of ...
Page xv
... evil near to the eye , and prolonging one's gaze at it , it may go on swelling and enlarg- ing in the apprehension , till it has come to fill the whole sphere of vision , to the exclusion and tem- porary oblivion of other evils of ...
... evil near to the eye , and prolonging one's gaze at it , it may go on swelling and enlarg- ing in the apprehension , till it has come to fill the whole sphere of vision , to the exclusion and tem- porary oblivion of other evils of ...
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... evil , and of thus aiding the growth of that plant " which is from above ..... full of mercy and of good fruits , " he would place this Essay at the feet of Him who deigns to commend the widow's mite . PART THE FIRST . SELFISHNESS THE ...
... evil , and of thus aiding the growth of that plant " which is from above ..... full of mercy and of good fruits , " he would place this Essay at the feet of Him who deigns to commend the widow's mite . PART THE FIRST . SELFISHNESS THE ...
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Page 209 - Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 94 - For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him ; Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor; Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool ; are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts...
Page 74 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 138 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 225 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 11 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 184 - 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.
Page 140 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 179 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 71 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.