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 sayfa |
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Sayfa 15
... reasons inscrutable by us , why Christianity has been so slow in its progress and so limited in its effects ; yet , I presume , that one grand reason is to be found in the fact , that the great majority of its professors have paid more ...
... reasons inscrutable by us , why Christianity has been so slow in its progress and so limited in its effects ; yet , I presume , that one grand reason is to be found in the fact , that the great majority of its professors have paid more ...
Sayfa 19
... reason , and confined within their proper bounds . We may even desire the possessions of others when they are willing to relinquish them , and when we are able and willing to offer them a fair and equitable compensation . We may ...
... reason , and confined within their proper bounds . We may even desire the possessions of others when they are willing to relinquish them , and when we are able and willing to offer them a fair and equitable compensation . We may ...
Sayfa 20
... reason and revelation , and tends to frustrate the beneficent designs of Him whose goodness and " ten- der mercies are over all his works . ” It is not , therefore , in the simple desire of world- ly good that covetousness consists ...
... reason and revelation , and tends to frustrate the beneficent designs of Him whose goodness and " ten- der mercies are over all his works . ” It is not , therefore , in the simple desire of world- ly good that covetousness consists ...
Sayfa 22
... reason to believe , that this woful propensity in conjunction with ambition with which it is inseparably connected , in one shape or another , was the principal cause of the wickedness which abounded in the world before the flood , and ...
... reason to believe , that this woful propensity in conjunction with ambition with which it is inseparably connected , in one shape or another , was the principal cause of the wickedness which abounded in the world before the flood , and ...
Sayfa 29
... reason to believe , has been wasted in luxury and debauchery . I have stated these more atrocious acts of avarice , for the purpose of showing to what a pitch of wicked- ness and barbarity the principle of covetousness will lead its ...
... reason to believe , has been wasted in luxury and debauchery . I have stated these more atrocious acts of avarice , for the purpose of showing to what a pitch of wicked- ness and barbarity the principle of covetousness will lead its ...
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Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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?
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.