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... able and willing to assist me , nor any other means of interest , I was ne- cessarily laid on the shelf , neglected and for- gotten . Possessed of a little military rank , and some few medals , to wear which ( such is the anomaly of ...
... able and willing to assist me , nor any other means of interest , I was ne- cessarily laid on the shelf , neglected and for- gotten . Possessed of a little military rank , and some few medals , to wear which ( such is the anomaly of ...
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... able , especially when I observed that in muti- lating the Scriptures ( which he had done , also , in many other instances ) he was endeavouring to arrive at a point the very reverse of what is aimed at by the Unitarians themselves ...
... able , especially when I observed that in muti- lating the Scriptures ( which he had done , also , in many other instances ) he was endeavouring to arrive at a point the very reverse of what is aimed at by the Unitarians themselves ...
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... only upon the principle of some immediate revelation from God himself , that I feel able satisfactorily to account for the origin of any of those sacri- fices which prevailed so universally among man- kind , previous 74 THE SOCINIAN .
... only upon the principle of some immediate revelation from God himself , that I feel able satisfactorily to account for the origin of any of those sacri- fices which prevailed so universally among man- kind , previous 74 THE SOCINIAN .
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... any supplications from one so unworthy as sin has made me could be accept- able to a just and holy God , a God who loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity . I do not see what assurance we have that the Almighty , after we 82 THE SOCINIAN .
... any supplications from one so unworthy as sin has made me could be accept- able to a just and holy God , a God who loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity . I do not see what assurance we have that the Almighty , after we 82 THE SOCINIAN .
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... able to gain satisfactory information on that head ? " " We were both of us , " I replied , “ wound- ed in that action ; myself severely , but he very dangerously . After the battle we contrived to interest some stragglers to take us to ...
... able to gain satisfactory information on that head ? " " We were both of us , " I replied , “ wound- ed in that action ; myself severely , but he very dangerously . After the battle we contrived to interest some stragglers to take us to ...
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Page 130 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 387 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 146 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 228 - A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret : With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth...
Page 139 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 128 - LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAYS, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
Page 136 - God made thee perfect, not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it in thy power; ordain'd thy will By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity...
Page 387 - Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Page 139 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 233 - Symmetrical, but deck'd with carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.