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Side 6
... Moral A moral action , when done with a Christian spirit , is changed into a heavenly grace . - Romaine . ACTION - Natural . We should try to avoid or correct bad habits , and to give nature fair play . Let a man's bo lily parts be free ...
... Moral A moral action , when done with a Christian spirit , is changed into a heavenly grace . - Romaine . ACTION - Natural . We should try to avoid or correct bad habits , and to give nature fair play . Let a man's bo lily parts be free ...
Side 11
... moral charity , and an act that oweth more to passion than to reason . He that relieves another upon the bare suggestion and bowels of pity , doth not this so much for his sake as for his own ; for by compassion we make other's misery ...
... moral charity , and an act that oweth more to passion than to reason . He that relieves another upon the bare suggestion and bowels of pity , doth not this so much for his sake as for his own ; for by compassion we make other's misery ...
Side 18
... moral teaching , and such an impress of a holy life behind them , —a life so pure , wise , loving , so suited , in every respect , to bless mankind , and to make a heaven below in proportion as it is received . They lived , laboured ...
... moral teaching , and such an impress of a holy life behind them , —a life so pure , wise , loving , so suited , in every respect , to bless mankind , and to make a heaven below in proportion as it is received . They lived , laboured ...
Side 19
... moral truth with the sublimity of an ancient prophet . And Paul , who owed something to Gamaliel , counted his wisdom as loss for Christ ; and the vigorous logician of the Epistle to the Romans ; the master of warning , of irony , of ...
... moral truth with the sublimity of an ancient prophet . And Paul , who owed something to Gamaliel , counted his wisdom as loss for Christ ; and the vigorous logician of the Epistle to the Romans ; the master of warning , of irony , of ...
Side 21
... moral truth with the sublimity of an ancient prophet . And Paul , who owed something to Gamaliel , counted his wisdom as loss for Christ ; and the vigorous logician of the Epistle to the Romans ; the master of warning , of irony , of ...
... moral truth with the sublimity of an ancient prophet . And Paul , who owed something to Gamaliel , counted his wisdom as loss for Christ ; and the vigorous logician of the Epistle to the Romans ; the master of warning , of irony , of ...
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Side 59 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Side 410 - All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghostj teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Side 38 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Side 486 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, ** Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, ** And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in...
Side 522 - I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause.
Side 561 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Side 465 - And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place," " it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, 'For he is good, for his mercy endureth forever:' that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord...
Side 562 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels ; by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Side 286 - O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, That takest away the sins of the world : have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world: receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father: have mercy upon us.
Side 591 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.