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... human and Divine , profane the sacred name of religion , by using it as a cloak to conceal extreme cupidity , and even while officiating at her hallowed altars , in secret sacrifice to ambition , ava- rice and pleasure , she is ...
... human and Divine , profane the sacred name of religion , by using it as a cloak to conceal extreme cupidity , and even while officiating at her hallowed altars , in secret sacrifice to ambition , ava- rice and pleasure , she is ...
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... human judge or lawgiver , and the poor and abject , who might be thought beneath his notice , and whose rights or sufferings might at- tract no regard , are equal in the sight of our Divine Lawgiver and Judge . With Him , is no respect ...
... human judge or lawgiver , and the poor and abject , who might be thought beneath his notice , and whose rights or sufferings might at- tract no regard , are equal in the sight of our Divine Lawgiver and Judge . With Him , is no respect ...
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... not the best interests of society be advanced , in proportion to the prevalence of the gospel ? Its tendency is , to free the human mind from the shackles of ignorance and sin , from super- stition , bigotry and false zeal - to inform it ...
... not the best interests of society be advanced , in proportion to the prevalence of the gospel ? Its tendency is , to free the human mind from the shackles of ignorance and sin , from super- stition , bigotry and false zeal - to inform it ...
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... human power should prescribe for them in the concerns of religion they could not brook , nor submit to the arbitrary exac- tions of corrupt ecclesiastical courts . They drank into the spirit of the gospel , and demanded liberty of ...
... human power should prescribe for them in the concerns of religion they could not brook , nor submit to the arbitrary exac- tions of corrupt ecclesiastical courts . They drank into the spirit of the gospel , and demanded liberty of ...
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... human pride : He questions Athens , and Rome and Carthage , and the sepulchral voice is heard to echo , " faction , am- bition , avarice . " He asks the ruins of Jerusalem , and seems to hear her answer from the dust , " rebel- lion ...
... human pride : He questions Athens , and Rome and Carthage , and the sepulchral voice is heard to echo , " faction , am- bition , avarice . " He asks the ruins of Jerusalem , and seems to hear her answer from the dust , " rebel- lion ...
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Page 21 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 23 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 10 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 6 - ... and It is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 6 - If it were a matter of wrong, or ' wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should ' bear with you : but if it be a question of words and ' names, and of your law, look ye to it ; for I will be no
Page 1 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 6 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world...
Page 6 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors — It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 6 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 1 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.