A reply to the Letters of the abbé Dubois, on the state of Christianity in India1824 |
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... Christianity among the natives in India ? Secondly , Are the means employed for that purpose , and , above all , the ... Christianity : and , Secondly , that the translation of the Holy Scriptures circulated among them , so far from B ...
... Christianity among the natives in India ? Secondly , Are the means employed for that purpose , and , above all , the ... Christianity : and , Secondly , that the translation of the Holy Scriptures circulated among them , so far from B ...
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... Christian Religion , and prove , in many respects , detrimental to it . " " These assertions " he endeavours to sup- port " by such arguments and proofs as a long experience and practice in the career of proselytism have enabled " him ...
... Christian Religion , and prove , in many respects , detrimental to it . " " These assertions " he endeavours to sup- port " by such arguments and proofs as a long experience and practice in the career of proselytism have enabled " him ...
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... Christ , and thus , before we are aware of it , be fighting against the purposes of Almighty God . If the Author's views be ... Christian Religion ! A question involving such tremendous consequences , to so great a proportion of mankind ...
... Christ , and thus , before we are aware of it , be fighting against the purposes of Almighty God . If the Author's views be ... Christian Religion ! A question involving such tremendous consequences , to so great a proportion of mankind ...
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... Christian Faith , is to betray a total igno- rance of their character . I have studied their character ; and could , from my own experience , give a description of their moral depravity that would afflict the Christian's soul . But I ...
... Christian Faith , is to betray a total igno- rance of their character . I have studied their character ; and could , from my own experience , give a description of their moral depravity that would afflict the Christian's soul . But I ...
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... Christian vices . " p . 92 . " A Hindoo , and , above all , a Brahmin , by his institutions , his usages , his education and customs , must be considered as a kind of moral monster - as an individual placed in a state of continual ...
... Christian vices . " p . 92 . " A Hindoo , and , above all , a Brahmin , by his institutions , his usages , his education and customs , must be considered as a kind of moral monster - as an individual placed in a state of continual ...
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Page 18 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 265 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth : he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 213 - See a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks, on every side arise Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
Page 161 - Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 10 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you : but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Page 188 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 28 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shaU rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 213 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day!
Page 31 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 212 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.