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... virtue . I have alluded to these few facts merely to satisfy you of the justness of the following assertion ; that the civil powers of Europe , who assumed the character of patrons of the reformation , were from the first , and all ...
... virtue . I have alluded to these few facts merely to satisfy you of the justness of the following assertion ; that the civil powers of Europe , who assumed the character of patrons of the reformation , were from the first , and all ...
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... virtue , was set up in the capital of the empire and worshipped , under the name of THE Goddess of REASON . Never was a per- sonification so lively ; never was an emblem so exact- reason stripped of all the virtues , and indulging all ...
... virtue , was set up in the capital of the empire and worshipped , under the name of THE Goddess of REASON . Never was a per- sonification so lively ; never was an emblem so exact- reason stripped of all the virtues , and indulging all ...
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... virtue ; men despicable , and des- pised , not only by their subjects , but even by their flat- terers . It may be said , that there is one who stands clear of this censure ; allowing this to be so , still it may be ask- ed , does not ...
... virtue ; men despicable , and des- pised , not only by their subjects , but even by their flat- terers . It may be said , that there is one who stands clear of this censure ; allowing this to be so , still it may be ask- ed , does not ...
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... virtues , they seem , at the same time , to be stripped of those extraneous supports , which in other ages have propped up feeble and totter- ing thrones . Their nobility are either degraded , like themselves , in the public estimation ...
... virtues , they seem , at the same time , to be stripped of those extraneous supports , which in other ages have propped up feeble and totter- ing thrones . Their nobility are either degraded , like themselves , in the public estimation ...
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... virtue ? Who will then abstain from his neighbour's property , or shrink from dipping his hands in his brother's blood . Three years and a half ! What a jubilee - what an eternity of heaven upon earth ! But still the wicked man's heaven ...
... virtue ? Who will then abstain from his neighbour's property , or shrink from dipping his hands in his brother's blood . Three years and a half ! What a jubilee - what an eternity of heaven upon earth ! But still the wicked man's heaven ...
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Page 47 - And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Page 70 - I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people : Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them : and I will make of thee a great
Page 93 - For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Page 72 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 62 - I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall ? God forbid : but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness...
Page 10 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather : for the sky is red.
Page 72 - For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers...
Page 71 - And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them ? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Page 12 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Page 42 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.