Views of Christian Truth, Piety, and Morality: Selected from the Writings of Dr. Priestley : with a Memoir of His LifeJ. Munroe and Company, 1834 - 207 páginas |
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... passions of most men are still engaging them in a variety of pursuits , in which they are as eager , and which they prosecute with as much alacrity and earnestness , as if necessity compelled them to it ; otherwise , every person who ...
... passions of most men are still engaging them in a variety of pursuits , in which they are as eager , and which they prosecute with as much alacrity and earnestness , as if necessity compelled them to it ; otherwise , every person who ...
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... passions , before other objects and motives have acquired a sufficient power over us . But though we ought , therefore , to exhort those persons who are immersed in sensuality and gross vices , to abandon those indulgencies out of a ...
... passions , before other objects and motives have acquired a sufficient power over us . But though we ought , therefore , to exhort those persons who are immersed in sensuality and gross vices , to abandon those indulgencies out of a ...
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... passions , only serve to aug- ment that unspeakable joy , satisfaction , and confidence , with which a deep sense of the presence and providence of God inspires the soul . The relief a benevolent mind feels from communicating its ...
... passions , only serve to aug- ment that unspeakable joy , satisfaction , and confidence , with which a deep sense of the presence and providence of God inspires the soul . The relief a benevolent mind feels from communicating its ...
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... passions which terminate in the enjoy ment of them , are inflamed to such a degree , that no other principle can restrain their indulgence . These persons may be called practical atheists ; and the temper of mind they have acquired ...
... passions which terminate in the enjoy ment of them , are inflamed to such a degree , that no other principle can restrain their indulgence . These persons may be called practical atheists ; and the temper of mind they have acquired ...
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... passions enslaves our minds , and is highly dangerous and criminal . By this means we too often come to forget God our maker , to injure our fellow - creatures of mankind , and to do a still greater and more irreparable injury to ...
... passions enslaves our minds , and is highly dangerous and criminal . By this means we too often come to forget God our maker , to injure our fellow - creatures of mankind , and to do a still greater and more irreparable injury to ...
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Página lxxx - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Página 20 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Página 33 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Página 163 - What sweetness, what purity in his manners ! what an affecting gracefulness in his delivery ! what sublimity in his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! what presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies!
Página 21 - And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven.
Página 163 - Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it ; it is more inconceivable that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one should furnish the subject of it.
Página 21 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Página 33 - Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in, and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Página 172 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Página 15 - The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind ; and our neighbour as ourselves.