A Sermon, Delivered to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters, at Hackney, on the 10th of February Last: Being the Day Appointed for a General Fast |
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... must all of you recollect that these Y are ze words are represented as addreffed to the Deity by the Patriarch Abraham , when he was interceding with him for the city of Sodom . There can fcarcely be a more affecting repre- fentation ...
... must all of you recollect that these Y are ze words are represented as addreffed to the Deity by the Patriarch Abraham , when he was interceding with him for the city of Sodom . There can fcarcely be a more affecting repre- fentation ...
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... must be derived from mife- rable inattention and ignorance . True knowledge will neceffarily make us devout , and force us to acknowledge that God is the cause of all causes , that his power is the fource of all efficacy in na- ture ...
... must be derived from mife- rable inattention and ignorance . True knowledge will neceffarily make us devout , and force us to acknowledge that God is the cause of all causes , that his power is the fource of all efficacy in na- ture ...
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... must , however , remember , that in the common course of things it is not to be expected , that in either of thefe ways God will manifeft his care of the righteous . There may be no distant country to which they can fly , nor may an ex ...
... must , however , remember , that in the common course of things it is not to be expected , that in either of thefe ways God will manifeft his care of the righteous . There may be no distant country to which they can fly , nor may an ex ...
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... must haften to fome obfervations of a different kind . My principal design on this occafion was to fet be- fore you the chief particulars in the characters of those righteous men who are a bleffing to their country ; and to point out to ...
... must haften to fome obfervations of a different kind . My principal design on this occafion was to fet be- fore you the chief particulars in the characters of those righteous men who are a bleffing to their country ; and to point out to ...
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... fhort , a virtuous man must be a firm and determined patriot . Power cannot awe him . Money cannot bribe him . He fcruples no labour or expence in fupporting any neceffary measures of of government ; but at the fame time he will [ 21 ]
... fhort , a virtuous man must be a firm and determined patriot . Power cannot awe him . Money cannot bribe him . He fcruples no labour or expence in fupporting any neceffary measures of of government ; but at the fame time he will [ 21 ]
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Page 3 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 6 - Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt Thou also destroy and .not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein ? That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right...
Page 14 - You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.
Page 14 - fide, and ten thoufand at thy right hand ; but it fhall
Page 15 - FOR, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 7 - It must be allowed then, that the people of this nation do enjoy, as fully as in the nature of things they are capable of enjoying, and as far as they have the will and the virtue to enjoy it, the great advantage of being governed by laws of their own framing, or to which they give their free assent.
Page 15 - And the Lord faid unto Noah, Come thou and all thy houfe into the ark ; for thee have I ieen righter ous before main this generation.
Page 6 - Behold now I have taken upon me to fpeak unto the Lord, whifh am but duft and afhes.
Page 14 - He fhall call upon me,' and I will anfwer him': I will be with him in trouble ; I will deliver him and honour him.