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 Documents |
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... become the kingdoms of our Lord , and of his Mes- siah . " In the illustration of this subject the following plan may be adopted . I. I shall describe the disposition or propensity de- signated by " Covetousness , " as it has operated ...
... become the kingdoms of our Lord , and of his Mes- siah . " In the illustration of this subject the following plan may be adopted . I. I shall describe the disposition or propensity de- signated by " Covetousness , " as it has operated ...
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... becoming contempt on worldly treasures , except in so far as they were subservient to the purposes of benevolence , and to the promoting of the interests of the Redeemer's kingdom . For , we are told , that " all that believed , " being ...
... becoming contempt on worldly treasures , except in so far as they were subservient to the purposes of benevolence , and to the promoting of the interests of the Redeemer's kingdom . For , we are told , that " all that believed , " being ...
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... become dim , and the most fine gold has changed ! The great majority of those called Christians , in our times , can scarcely be distinguished , in their dispositions and con- duct , from civilized Pagans , and the professed men of the ...
... become dim , and the most fine gold has changed ! The great majority of those called Christians , in our times , can scarcely be distinguished , in their dispositions and con- duct , from civilized Pagans , and the professed men of the ...
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... become venal in the Romish tribunals ; simony was openly practised ; no favors , and even no justice could be obtained without a bribe ; the highest bidder was sure to have the pre- ference , without regard either to the merits of the ...
... become venal in the Romish tribunals ; simony was openly practised ; no favors , and even no justice could be obtained without a bribe ; the highest bidder was sure to have the pre- ference , without regard either to the merits of the ...
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... become as seri- ously afflicted as a man might be who had lost all his property . During the last winter of his life , he would frequently be heard at midnight , as if struggling with some one in his chamber , and crying out , " I will ...
... become as seri- ously afflicted as a man might be who had lost all his property . During the last winter of his life , he would frequently be heard at midnight , as if struggling with some one in his chamber , and crying out , " I will ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.