Christian who had betrayed the Lord, even as Judas did, and had gone over to Satan. For her part, she wished that the first-discovered witch had been a member of a godly English household, that it might be seen of all men that religious folk were willing... Right at Last: And Other Tales - Página 180por Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1860 - 305 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Henry Smith - 1809 - 212 páginas
...kill and crucify our beloved lust, which courts us vvith such bewitching lende'rs of satisfaction. To cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye (in a literal sense) is not a greater violence to nature. But, dear as our favourite sin is, I must... | |
| James BOWDEN (Minister at Tooting.) - 1814 - 634 páginas
...in their prevailing inclinations and habits, to " crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts," to " cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye," and pursue after happiness, in a path directly in opposition to " the course of this world." You are... | |
| Daniel Sheppard Wayland - 1821 - 476 páginas
...of revenge, to eradicate the^feelings of scorn, emotions as painful as they are malignant, should be to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye ; should be to change the whole course of our thoughts and feelings, and give up all for which we seem... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1833 - 574 páginas
...aversion. We have many earthly and sensual appetites, which plead for indulgence : and when we are required to " cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye," and to " be holy as God himself is holy," we reply, " This is an hard saying; who can hear it?" To... | |
| John Jebb (bp. of Limerick.) - 1837 - 486 páginas
...latter, there has ever been a disposition, by a departure from the ordinary modes of life, literally to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye ; whilst we, I fondly hoped, were, at least, in progress towards a spiritual excision, of whatever... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1837 - 450 páginas
...not the whole of the revelation; and no party in the controversy consider themselves bound literally to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye, to wash each other's feet, to have all things in common. It might be added that, though the Gospel... | |
| Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - 1840 - 658 páginas
...shall be ready to cast off what our souls refuse to acknowledge is not of Christ. We shall be reaily to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye : we shall gain new and better views of what Christianity requires. We shall not then be liable to... | |
| 1840 - 504 páginas
...what would be displeasing to Christ ; and earnestly implore Almighty strength, that you may be enabled to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye, which would cause you to offend. 4. I observe, once moro, that you must put yourselves in the way of... | |
| Charles Follen - 1841 - 376 páginas
...is earned only in the service of conscience, which opens a life of joy to those alone who are ready to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye at its bidding. It demands the greatest exercise of power of which man is capable, as the foundation... | |
| 1843 - 480 páginas
...not merely just to get men to change profession or creed outwardly, but that it aims at getting men to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye, to go in the very face and teeth and current of all their own evil desires and lusts ; when it aims... | |
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