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... ourselves , while God sits silently and sublimely at the head of all things , secretly guiding the com- plicated motions of his universe . The belief of a providence is of little value , un- less it become a habit of the mind . It is of ...
... ourselves , while God sits silently and sublimely at the head of all things , secretly guiding the com- plicated motions of his universe . The belief of a providence is of little value , un- less it become a habit of the mind . It is of ...
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... ourselves ; and , Secondly , To prove , that if our circumstances were more at our own disposal , and our wishes more frequently accomplished , we should probably be less happy than we are at present . To show you how little our lot in ...
... ourselves ; and , Secondly , To prove , that if our circumstances were more at our own disposal , and our wishes more frequently accomplished , we should probably be less happy than we are at present . To show you how little our lot in ...
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... to say , that the situation in which we find ourselves , is the di- rect result of our own contrivance , and of course that our lot in life is at our own disposal ? The second division of our subject now calls for our 32 SERMON II .
... to say , that the situation in which we find ourselves , is the di- rect result of our own contrivance , and of course that our lot in life is at our own disposal ? The second division of our subject now calls for our 32 SERMON II .
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... ourselves , we should consult our own happiness less than it is already consulted by the uncertainties , the disap- pointments , the casualties of the present arrange- ment of human affairs ? The reason is simply this ; that happiness ...
... ourselves , we should consult our own happiness less than it is already consulted by the uncertainties , the disap- pointments , the casualties of the present arrange- ment of human affairs ? The reason is simply this ; that happiness ...
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... ourselves suffer injustice , or when we see , as well as feel , the inconveniences of the imperfect retribution of the present life . These are arguments which strike the most obtuse understandings , and many a man who doubts of a 48 ...
... ourselves suffer injustice , or when we see , as well as feel , the inconveniences of the imperfect retribution of the present life . These are arguments which strike the most obtuse understandings , and many a man who doubts of a 48 ...
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Page 22 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of His understanding.
Page 271 - Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Page 174 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 343 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 55 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God...
Page 64 - Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 249 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 94 - Lord, Lord, open unto us ; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are : then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are ; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Page 342 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 183 - There is no moral formula more frequently cited, and with more deserved admiration, than that maxim of doing to others as we would have them do to us : and, as Paley observes, no one probably ever was in practice led astray by it.