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... guilt . The great motives that produce constancy and firmness of action , must be of a palpable and striking kind . A divine Legislator , uttering his voice from heaven ; an omniscient witness , beholding SERM . 1. ] 7 PIETY AND MORALITY .
... guilt . The great motives that produce constancy and firmness of action , must be of a palpable and striking kind . A divine Legislator , uttering his voice from heaven ; an omniscient witness , beholding SERM . 1. ] 7 PIETY AND MORALITY .
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... guilt . They add to virtue that solemnity which should ever characterise it . To the admonitions of conscience they give the authority of a law . Co - operating with all the good dispositions of a pious man , they strengthen and ensure ...
... guilt . They add to virtue that solemnity which should ever characterise it . To the admonitions of conscience they give the authority of a law . Co - operating with all the good dispositions of a pious man , they strengthen and ensure ...
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... guilt will necessarily present it ? Then the recollection of the past becomes dreadful . It exhibits to him a life thrown away on vanities and follies , or consumed in flagitiousness and sin ; no station ; properly supported ; no ...
... guilt will necessarily present it ? Then the recollection of the past becomes dreadful . It exhibits to him a life thrown away on vanities and follies , or consumed in flagitiousness and sin ; no station ; properly supported ; no ...
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... guilt , and the vexations of calamity ! The spirit of a man may sustain his infirmities ; but a wounded spirit who can beur ? Whereas , he who is blessed with a clear conscience , enjoys , in the worst conjunctures of human life , a ...
... guilt , and the vexations of calamity ! The spirit of a man may sustain his infirmities ; but a wounded spirit who can beur ? Whereas , he who is blessed with a clear conscience , enjoys , in the worst conjunctures of human life , a ...
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... guilt mingles with prosperity , a certain gloom and heaviness enter along with it . Vicious intrigues never fail to entangle and embarrass those who engage in them . But innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; leaves it open to ...
... guilt mingles with prosperity , a certain gloom and heaviness enter along with it . Vicious intrigues never fail to entangle and embarrass those who engage in them . But innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; leaves it open to ...
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Page 237 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 53 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 101 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Page 148 - He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand...
Page 202 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 194 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 146 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 53 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 133 - Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.