EmancipationHoulston and Son, 1829 - 150 pages |
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Page 145 - God ; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof : from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Page 145 - This know also, that in the Last Days perilous Times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,* unthankful, unholy. Without natural affection, truce- breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God ; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof : from such turn away.
Page 42 - Bessy had attained the ages of five and three, that the baleful effects of my false principles began to display themselves more evidently. My wife, as I before said, was young and inexperienced when she married me ; and my absurd notion of not interfering with her caprices had deprived her in many instances of the benefit of my advice. There is an old saying, that " two heads are better than one...
Page 103 - How do you know this, Sarah?" I asked. She immediately shewed me 1 Tim. ii. 5. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; and 1 John ii. 1. — We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. I held the book in my hand, and was lost in meditation; while my little girl, looking upon me with innocent glee, said, "Is it not so, father ? have not we got a Friend to pray for us who will do better than we can? — My aunt often tells me, when I do...
Page 103 - John xiv. 6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the Father but by me 1 Tim ii. 5. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Page 111 - In common with many other pragmatical persons, I had formed an ideal deity to myself, as totally different from the God of Scripture as Mahomet is unlike to Christ. The god of my folly was a supposed indulgent parent; paying little regard to the proceedings of his children, so long as they transgress not certain bounds; which, by the by, were always regulated by my own pleasure : but, when I came to examine the character of the Deity by Scripture, I discovered at once, to my utter dismay, that he...
Page 144 - Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be ye horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord : for my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewed out to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 130 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.