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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... religion and atheism 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 ...
... religion and atheism 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 ...
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... RELIGION , a fet of holy ufurpers have pre- tended that there are myfteries in religion of which the people are not judges , and into which they should not enquire ; and that , for this rea- fon , they ought to refign to them the ...
... RELIGION , a fet of holy ufurpers have pre- tended that there are myfteries in religion of which the people are not judges , and into which they should not enquire ; and that , for this rea- fon , they ought to refign to them the ...
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... religion gives dignity and efficacy to all our moral and public principles ; nor is it poffible there should be a ... religion . As a truly virtuous and religious man must be a patriot , so a true patriot muft must be a virtuous and ...
... religion gives dignity and efficacy to all our moral and public principles ; nor is it poffible there should be a ... religion . As a truly virtuous and religious man must be a patriot , so a true patriot muft must be a virtuous and ...
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... religious man . The ob ligations of righteousness are the fame in all their branches , and a righteous man cannot violate them habitually in any instance . Is it likely , that a man who is falfe to private engagements , will not be alfo ...
... religious man . The ob ligations of righteousness are the fame in all their branches , and a righteous man cannot violate them habitually in any instance . Is it likely , that a man who is falfe to private engagements , will not be alfo ...
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... religion , or that he is known to be a drunkard , a gamefter , an adul- terer , or an atheift ? What vacancies would be made in public offices , were all but men of pure manners and independent integrity taken from them ? As to RELIGION ...
... religion , or that he is known to be a drunkard , a gamefter , an adul- terer , or an atheift ? What vacancies would be made in public offices , were all but men of pure manners and independent integrity taken from them ? As to RELIGION ...
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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.