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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... performing its Duties , yet cry down Mo- rality , and condemn the Preaching or Inculcating of good Works as a Matter ... perform the whole Will of God . Now both these Descriptions of Persons are in an egregious Error ; for certainly one ...
... performing its Duties , yet cry down Mo- rality , and condemn the Preaching or Inculcating of good Works as a Matter ... perform the whole Will of God . Now both these Descriptions of Persons are in an egregious Error ; for certainly one ...
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... perform such perfect Obedience . Granted . But does it thence follow , that because we are not able to render a perfect Obedience , that therefore we cannot make some Approach towards it ; or that because we cannot do every Thing , that ...
... perform such perfect Obedience . Granted . But does it thence follow , that because we are not able to render a perfect Obedience , that therefore we cannot make some Approach towards it ; or that because we cannot do every Thing , that ...
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... perform , in its full Extent . But to animate and encourage us in such trying Cases , we should recollect the Example of our Lord , who in the days of His Humiliation , with the Pros- pect of a most painful Death full before Him , pray ...
... perform , in its full Extent . But to animate and encourage us in such trying Cases , we should recollect the Example of our Lord , who in the days of His Humiliation , with the Pros- pect of a most painful Death full before Him , pray ...
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... perform this Class of Duties , arises from the transcendent Attributes of God , and our Dependance upon Him ; that is , from what He is in Himself , and from what He is to us . And we ought to honour , reverence , worship , and adore ...
... perform this Class of Duties , arises from the transcendent Attributes of God , and our Dependance upon Him ; that is , from what He is in Himself , and from what He is to us . And we ought to honour , reverence , worship , and adore ...
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... performed . That rational Creatures , who are con- tinually receiving so many , and so great Favours , from the universal Parent , should make Him all the Returns of Gratitude in their Power , must certainly be a natural Sentiment ; and ...
... performed . That rational Creatures , who are con- tinually receiving so many , and so great Favours , from the universal Parent , should make Him all the Returns of Gratitude in their Power , must certainly be a natural Sentiment ; and ...
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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.