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Emma Meek. 19 CHAPTER II . ON INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY . MAN has many things in common with the inferior animal natures which surround him ; like them he has senses and powers of body , and by many of the brute creation he is sur ...
Emma Meek. 19 CHAPTER II . ON INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY . MAN has many things in common with the inferior animal natures which surround him ; like them he has senses and powers of body , and by many of the brute creation he is sur ...
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... things he has , and to spend his time and money just as he pleases : probably it would be considered the height of virtue if he keep within his income , and can find wherewithal to purchase his gratifications . If he abstain from those ...
... things he has , and to spend his time and money just as he pleases : probably it would be considered the height of virtue if he keep within his income , and can find wherewithal to purchase his gratifications . If he abstain from those ...
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... things disappointment adds poignancy to grief , and that when we have ex- pected happiness , to find sorrow would make our misery greater by the contrast of anticipated bliss . What then must be the sensations of a disembodied spirit ...
... things disappointment adds poignancy to grief , and that when we have ex- pected happiness , to find sorrow would make our misery greater by the contrast of anticipated bliss . What then must be the sensations of a disembodied spirit ...
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... things so to be ? " Is this agreeable to the spirit of St. Paul , when he sought not his own profit , but the profit of many ? Would that a higher stand- ard of Christian self - denial were set up among us ! —would that the daily ...
... things so to be ? " Is this agreeable to the spirit of St. Paul , when he sought not his own profit , but the profit of many ? Would that a higher stand- ard of Christian self - denial were set up among us ! —would that the daily ...
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... things , knows the true value of all things . What that light is , the Holy Scriptures tell us ; and by the light of Scripture it is alike our interest , our wisdom , and our happiness to walk . Let us seek , then , to judge of objects ...
... things , knows the true value of all things . What that light is , the Holy Scriptures tell us ; and by the light of Scripture it is alike our interest , our wisdom , and our happiness to walk . Let us seek , then , to judge of objects ...
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Página 66 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Página 33 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Página 127 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Página 108 - Christianity must have been, in a great degree, sunk and forgot in a very few ages. To prevent this appears to have been one reason why a visible church was instituted; to be, like a city upon a hill, a standing memorial to the world of the duty which we owe our maker; to call men continually, to by example and instruction, to attend to it...
Página 122 - shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever.
Página 62 - Then," in the full sense of the words (Rev. xi. 15), " shall the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our LORD, and of his CHRIST, and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Página 54 - I lighted a bit of paper, at the embers of a turf which lay in the chimney, and looked in. It was a cellar wholly dark; and about twelve feet square: two bundles of straw lay in two corners; on one, sat a bed-ridden...
Página 11 - shall have the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession ; " when " the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Página 101 - Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me : he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house : he that telleth Lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Página 108 - Church was instituted; to be, like a City upon a Hill, a standing Memorial to the World, of the Duty which we owe our Maker; to call Men continually, both by Example and Instruction, to attend to it...