Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical: Adapted to the Promotion of Christian Piety, Family Religion, and Youthful Virtue, Volume 4by Isaiah Thomas, Jun.; Sold at his respective bookstores in Boston and Worcester., 1810 - Congregational churches |
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... misery , and the latter to happiness , in- conceivable in degree , and interminable in dura- tion ; then the pious believer has infinitely the ad- vantage . He is safe ; the Atheist is undone . All the hazard therefore is on the side of ...
... misery , and the latter to happiness , in- conceivable in degree , and interminable in dura- tion ; then the pious believer has infinitely the ad- vantage . He is safe ; the Atheist is undone . All the hazard therefore is on the side of ...
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... misery beyond the present life . But I would ask this man , Are you sure , that your conclusion is just ? -You think that if there is a God , you are in danger . But whence arises your danger ? Surely not from God's government , but ...
... misery beyond the present life . But I would ask this man , Are you sure , that your conclusion is just ? -You think that if there is a God , you are in danger . But whence arises your danger ? Surely not from God's government , but ...
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... misery . Why not ? If vice in its own nature tends to misery , how will you escape misery without renouncing vice ? You say , perhaps , " If there is no God , there is no future existence ; and if no existence , then no misery . " Is ...
... misery . Why not ? If vice in its own nature tends to misery , how will you escape misery without renouncing vice ? You say , perhaps , " If there is no God , there is no future existence ; and if no existence , then no misery . " Is ...
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... misery ; for , admitting there were no God , still he may exist hereafter , as well as here ; and if he does exist , his corruptions and vices may render him miserable eternally , as well as for the present . 4. He who wishes , there ...
... misery ; for , admitting there were no God , still he may exist hereafter , as well as here ; and if he does exist , his corruptions and vices may render him miserable eternally , as well as for the present . 4. He who wishes , there ...
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... misery of the future world , in case this would be most for God's glory . For such a state of mind , if it were possible , would be nothing less , than a willingness to retain an eternal enmity to God , for his greater glory ; and the ...
... misery of the future world , in case this would be most for God's glory . For such a state of mind , if it were possible , would be nothing less , than a willingness to retain an eternal enmity to God , for his greater glory ; and the ...
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Page 168 - The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Page 37 - Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father : if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
Page 26 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 178 - And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Page 389 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord...
Page 331 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 332 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Page 372 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 204 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 373 - Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.