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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... whole sum thus expended would not have amounted to above £ 10 - which could only be a trivial sum to the indi- viduals who offered the Prize . And equity required , that those who had been at the expense of paper and quills , and who ...
... whole sum thus expended would not have amounted to above £ 10 - which could only be a trivial sum to the indi- viduals who offered the Prize . And equity required , that those who had been at the expense of paper and quills , and who ...
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... whole history of the world , since that period , may be considered as little else than a revolting detail of the operations of covetousness and ambition , and of the direful effects they have produced on the destinies of mankind . The ...
... whole history of the world , since that period , may be considered as little else than a revolting detail of the operations of covetousness and ambition , and of the direful effects they have produced on the destinies of mankind . The ...
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... whole attention of his followers . No desire to confer benefits on the natives , who almost adored them , seems ever to have entered their breasts` ; > but , on the other hand , they displayed every species of perfidy , inhumanity and ...
... whole attention of his followers . No desire to confer benefits on the natives , who almost adored them , seems ever to have entered their breasts` ; > but , on the other hand , they displayed every species of perfidy , inhumanity and ...
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... whole of our colonization system has been com- menced and carried on from a principle of avarice ; when the rights of independent tribes have been inva- ded , and their territories wrested from them without an adequate compensation ...
... whole of our colonization system has been com- menced and carried on from a principle of avarice ; when the rights of independent tribes have been inva- ded , and their territories wrested from them without an adequate compensation ...
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... whole year to which the number of five thousand martyrs can- not be ascribed , except only the first day of January . " So that every year no less than one million , eight hun- dred and twenty thousand Christians must have perish- ed ...
... whole year to which the number of five thousand martyrs can- not be ascribed , except only the first day of January . " So that every year no less than one million , eight hun- dred and twenty thousand Christians must have perish- ed ...
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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.