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... hand of violence and oppreffion will be overbalanced in a future and happy ftate , where our light affliction , which in comparison of eternity " is but for a moment , fhall work for us a far more ex- ceeding and eternal weight of glory ...
... hand of violence and oppreffion will be overbalanced in a future and happy ftate , where our light affliction , which in comparison of eternity " is but for a moment , fhall work for us a far more ex- ceeding and eternal weight of glory ...
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... hand , the injured brute hath neither speech to plead for him , nor law to protect him , nor hope of future rècompence to fupport him . His present life ( for any thing we know ) is the Whole of his existence ; and , if he is unhappy ...
... hand , the injured brute hath neither speech to plead for him , nor law to protect him , nor hope of future rècompence to fupport him . His present life ( for any thing we know ) is the Whole of his existence ; and , if he is unhappy ...
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... hands are fo imbrued in blood , that in fpite of the fhame of it , we cannot wash them clean . We glory in that which , being mif- applied , is our difgrace ; and when we feel ourselves wounded in our pride , we change the fcales ; we ...
... hands are fo imbrued in blood , that in fpite of the fhame of it , we cannot wash them clean . We glory in that which , being mif- applied , is our difgrace ; and when we feel ourselves wounded in our pride , we change the fcales ; we ...
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... , which have qualities most powerful to ' injure us , that they naturally ' avoid mankind , and never hurt us unless provoked , or neceffitated . by hunger . But Man , on the - other · I pur- ' other hand , feeks out and ' fues [ 56 ]
... , which have qualities most powerful to ' injure us , that they naturally ' avoid mankind , and never hurt us unless provoked , or neceffitated . by hunger . But Man , on the - other · I pur- ' other hand , feeks out and ' fues [ 56 ]
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Humphrey Primatt. pur- ' other hand , feeks out and ' fues even the most inoffenfive ' animals on purpose to perfecute ' and destroy them . ' If this be the cafe ; it appears , that Mercy pre- ponderates in the fcale of brutes . For One ...
Humphrey Primatt. pur- ' other hand , feeks out and ' fues even the most inoffenfive ' animals on purpose to perfecute ' and destroy them . ' If this be the cafe ; it appears , that Mercy pre- ponderates in the fcale of brutes . For One ...
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Page 248 - Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Page 88 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 117 - O give thanks unto the God of heaven : for his mercy endureth for ever.
Page 98 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 165 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 168 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 87 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good. And GOD blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 184 - The lord then answered him, and said Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him away to watering?
Page 315 - I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 310 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark...