An Essay on the Sin and the Evils of Covetousness: And the Happy Effects which Would Flow from a Spirit of Christian Beneficence. Illustrated by a Variety of Facts, Selected from Sacred and Civil History, and Other DocumentsRobinson, Pratt, 1836 - 318 páginas |
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... profession of evangelical religion . Were this sin- . gle affection either undermined or extirpated , a deluge of miseries would soon be swept away from our suf- fering world philanthropy would distribute its thou- sand blessings among ...
... profession of evangelical religion . Were this sin- . gle affection either undermined or extirpated , a deluge of miseries would soon be swept away from our suf- fering world philanthropy would distribute its thou- sand blessings among ...
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... profession of amity , they seized upon the Inca or Em- peror of the country , who had received them in a friend- ly manner , and had commanded his attendants to offer the strangers no injury ; and butchered , with deliberate and ...
... profession of amity , they seized upon the Inca or Em- peror of the country , who had received them in a friend- ly manner , and had commanded his attendants to offer the strangers no injury ; and butchered , with deliberate and ...
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... professions or employ- ments in which they engage . This is nearly all that a Christian parent should be anxious to ... profession , and attend to the dictates of prudence , than if he had a constant dependence on the wealth and support ...
... professions or employ- ments in which they engage . This is nearly all that a Christian parent should be anxious to ... profession , and attend to the dictates of prudence , than if he had a constant dependence on the wealth and support ...
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... profession of piety , and were considered as pillars of Dissenting churches . By such conduct , young persons are not only deprived of that recreation which is necessary to the vigor of their ani- mal system , but prevented from ...
... profession of piety , and were considered as pillars of Dissenting churches . By such conduct , young persons are not only deprived of that recreation which is necessary to the vigor of their ani- mal system , but prevented from ...
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... professions of re- ligion were ostentatious and glaring ; who , after hav- ing become bankrupts , lived as luxuriously , dressed as gaily , gave their children as fashionable an education , and set them up in as lucrative professions ...
... professions of re- ligion were ostentatious and glaring ; who , after hav- ing become bankrupts , lived as luxuriously , dressed as gaily , gave their children as fashionable an education , and set them up in as lucrative professions ...
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Página 116 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Página 242 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Página 176 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Página 306 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Página 191 - Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the Name of the LORD thy GOD, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.
Página 117 - Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Página 213 - And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Página 176 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Página 155 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Página 129 - 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.