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... also whose circum- stances admit not of exceffes . Example produces imitation . No man has a right to fay , Thus will I act , because I can afford it ; and what have others to do with my conduct ? Confider the claffes of men as they ...
... also whose circum- stances admit not of exceffes . Example produces imitation . No man has a right to fay , Thus will I act , because I can afford it ; and what have others to do with my conduct ? Confider the claffes of men as they ...
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... also , that folly and vice occafion and multiply distress : that Benevolence , there- fore , will come nearest to the charity of the Gofpel , which leffens vice . The good example of a fuperior , is practical Bene- volence to an ...
... also , that folly and vice occafion and multiply distress : that Benevolence , there- fore , will come nearest to the charity of the Gofpel , which leffens vice . The good example of a fuperior , is practical Bene- volence to an ...
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... also deeply lament , that the food : which the more opulent are defirous of im- parting to the fouls of the poorer children , they withhold from their own . wholesome custom , both of private and public catechizing is almoft univerfally ...
... also deeply lament , that the food : which the more opulent are defirous of im- parting to the fouls of the poorer children , they withhold from their own . wholesome custom , both of private and public catechizing is almoft univerfally ...
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... and prophaneness of converfation before their children and dependents , which in itself is far from being innocent , and , in its confequences to public mera- lity , is truly lamentable . Much also is it to n 7 , ; 1 to be deplored , that.
... and prophaneness of converfation before their children and dependents , which in itself is far from being innocent , and , in its confequences to public mera- lity , is truly lamentable . Much also is it to n 7 , ; 1 to be deplored , that.
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... also for what we have occafioned others to do , either by our example or importunity ; and for what we might have prevented . At that day , then , when the ponderous tomb fhall open , and the grave give up her dead ; when no created ...
... also for what we have occafioned others to do , either by our example or importunity ; and for what we might have prevented . At that day , then , when the ponderous tomb fhall open , and the grave give up her dead ; when no created ...
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Page 165 - When I say unto the wicked, thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 55 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 15 - Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
Page 35 - For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, and there a little...
Page x - My son, help thy father in his age, and grieve him not as long as he liveth. And if his understanding fail, have patience with him; and despise him not when thou art in thy full strength.
Page 97 - Come ye blessed children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world : Grant this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Redeemer.
Page 60 - will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 36 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Page ix - And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them : but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Page 90 - Christianity ; they are not ours unless they be the virtues and tempers of our ordinary life. So that Christianity is so far from leaving us to live in the common ways of life, conforming to the folly of customs, and gratifying the passions and tempers which the spirit of the world delights in, it is so far from indulging us in any of these things, that all its virtues which it makes necessary to salvation are only so many ways of living above, and contrary to, the world...