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To disfranchise and to banish , to imprison , and to execute , sometimes members
of society are partial evils : but they are also some general benefits ; and the
excision of a part may be essential to the preservation of the whole . The inflicting
of ...
To disfranchise and to banish , to imprison , and to execute , sometimes members
of society are partial evils : but they are also some general benefits ; and the
excision of a part may be essential to the preservation of the whole . The inflicting
of ...
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An ancient heathen said of Camillus , that he was the whole Roman republic to
him : and Toxaris , when he had procured Anacharsis the acquaintance of Solon ,
said to him : This is Athens , this is Greece ; thou art no longer a stranger , thou ...
An ancient heathen said of Camillus , that he was the whole Roman republic to
him : and Toxaris , when he had procured Anacharsis the acquaintance of Solon ,
said to him : This is Athens , this is Greece ; thou art no longer a stranger , thou ...
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But perhaps , some may accuse me of taking that for granted which remains to be
proved , and of grounding my whole system of the holiness of God on a disputed
principle , the truth of which I have not yet demonstrated : that is , that there doth ...
But perhaps , some may accuse me of taking that for granted which remains to be
proved , and of grounding my whole system of the holiness of God on a disputed
principle , the truth of which I have not yet demonstrated : that is , that there doth ...
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tone , and who alone pretends to contradict all our ministers , and all our learned
men ; the whole church , and the whole school ? It is sometimes a man , whose
whole science consists in the casting up of a sum . It is sometimes a man , who ...
tone , and who alone pretends to contradict all our ministers , and all our learned
men ; the whole church , and the whole school ? It is sometimes a man , whose
whole science consists in the casting up of a sum . It is sometimes a man , who ...
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It often happens , that all things being considered , a particular happiness ,
considered in the whole of our felicity , is a general misery : and on the contrary ,
it often happens , that , all things being considered , a particular misery , in the
whole ...
It often happens , that all things being considered , a particular happiness ,
considered in the whole of our felicity , is a general misery : and on the contrary ,
it often happens , that , all things being considered , a particular misery , in the
whole ...
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Page 271 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 142 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 101 - But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 270 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more...
Page 100 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 271 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh ; for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven...
Page 104 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? are we stronger than he...
Page 289 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God*.
Page 293 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years...
Page 126 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
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| Title | Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin ..., Volume 1 Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Joseph Sutcliffe |
| Authors | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson |
| Editor | Gabriel Dumont |
| Publisher | L. Nichols, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2006 |
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