An Ethical Essay: Or, an Attempt to Enumerate the Several Duties which We Owe to God, Our Saviour, Our Neighbour and Ourselves, and the Virtues and Graces of the Christian Life; Contrasted on the Opposite Pages with Their Opposite Vices and Ill Dispositions. To Each of which are Subjoined Some Loose Notes, Imperfect Hints, and Common Observations, Serving to Illustrate, Limit, Or Enforce Them. Intended to Assist in the Important Duty of Self-examinationFoote, & Brown, prs., 1830 - 183 sider |
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... directed ; but they were thus fixed and engrained by habit . He did not exhibit the appearance of one who was struggling with difficulties , yet determined , from a strong desire and principle of rectitude , to conquer them ; but seemed ...
... directed ; but they were thus fixed and engrained by habit . He did not exhibit the appearance of one who was struggling with difficulties , yet determined , from a strong desire and principle of rectitude , to conquer them ; but seemed ...
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... demands our Services , no further than He has given Abilities . Our Saviour has directed us to be perfect , even as our Father in Heaven is perfect , when he well knew , knew , that it was impossible for any of his PREFACE . 7.
... demands our Services , no further than He has given Abilities . Our Saviour has directed us to be perfect , even as our Father in Heaven is perfect , when he well knew , knew , that it was impossible for any of his PREFACE . 7.
Side 29
... directed us to pray to Him in all our Wants , and to make our Supplications to Him . And furth- er , when we consider that although we cannot , by any Prayers we can offer , make any Change in the Deity , or in any of His Determinations ...
... directed us to pray to Him in all our Wants , and to make our Supplications to Him . And furth- er , when we consider that although we cannot , by any Prayers we can offer , make any Change in the Deity , or in any of His Determinations ...
Side 58
... directed to work with our Hands , ( and if so , then certainly to abstain from all unnecessary Expenses , ) that we may have , to give to him that needeth . It has pleased our wise Creator , to distribute the good Things of this Life ...
... directed to work with our Hands , ( and if so , then certainly to abstain from all unnecessary Expenses , ) that we may have , to give to him that needeth . It has pleased our wise Creator , to distribute the good Things of this Life ...
Side 90
... directed . First , it is in Excess , when it prompts the Inhabitants of one Country , to make War upon , or to invade , plunder , or conquer another , without just and most weighty Reasons ; and ( we may add too , ) with- out a fair ...
... directed . First , it is in Excess , when it prompts the Inhabitants of one Country , to make War upon , or to invade , plunder , or conquer another , without just and most weighty Reasons ; and ( we may add too , ) with- out a fair ...
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Side 73 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Side ii - Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirtieth day of June, AD 1826, and in the fiftieth year of the independence of the United States of America, JP DABNEY, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the ' right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : — A Selection of Hymns and Psalms, for social and private worship.
Side 149 - If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Side 43 - How, and in what particular way it had this efficacy, there are not wanting persons who have endeavoured to explain ; but I do not find that the Scripture has explained it.
Side 19 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Side 173 - Thus, we repeat, He admonishes men to return to God ; to reestablish their original likeness to him ; and He, who is " the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person...
Side 161 - When he was reviled, he reviled not again. When he suffered he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Side 103 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Side 17 - And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Side 87 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.