Essays to Do GoodChalmers and Collins, 1825 - 214 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... benevolent objects . Now , in order to obtain this knowledge , we must go to the word of God . We shall never acquire it , if we apply for it solely to our own independent resources . Universal experience shows , that in this , more ...
... benevolent objects . Now , in order to obtain this knowledge , we must go to the word of God . We shall never acquire it , if we apply for it solely to our own independent resources . Universal experience shows , that in this , more ...
Pagina x
... benevolent charac- ter , according to the discoveries made by revelation of the nature and destinies of man . If we have made it an exclusive object in exercising love to our neighbour , that he may at last " sit down in the king- dom ...
... benevolent charac- ter , according to the discoveries made by revelation of the nature and destinies of man . If we have made it an exclusive object in exercising love to our neighbour , that he may at last " sit down in the king- dom ...
Pagina xii
... benevolent ambition that they may " enter into the joy of our Lord , " we instruct them in the path by which it may be attained . when it is accom- And therefore , in And it is not sufficient for our thus doing good to them , that we ...
... benevolent ambition that they may " enter into the joy of our Lord , " we instruct them in the path by which it may be attained . when it is accom- And therefore , in And it is not sufficient for our thus doing good to them , that we ...
Pagina xv
... benevolence , or that we confer upon him , must have the effect of promoting his eternal welfare on the one hand , or of impairing it on the other - it must either make him better than he is , or worse than he might be , in his relation ...
... benevolence , or that we confer upon him , must have the effect of promoting his eternal welfare on the one hand , or of impairing it on the other - it must either make him better than he is , or worse than he might be , in his relation ...
Pagina xvi
... benevolence has not had its legitimate issue ; and . though designing to do much good , we have inflicted an unquestionable evil . Then , upon a consideration of all the particular points to which the objection refers , we shall find ...
... benevolence has not had its legitimate issue ; and . though designing to do much good , we have inflicted an unquestionable evil . Then , upon a consideration of all the particular points to which the objection refers , we shall find ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 137 - Be wise now therefore, O ye kings : be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Pagina 191 - O my God, I am ashamed, and blush to lift up my face unto Thee, my God ; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Pagina 205 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Pagina 60 - Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law, ROMANS 4 1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
Pagina 139 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the. tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Pagina 163 - Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Pagina 155 - The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Pagina 142 - Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep ; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine : yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people. 19 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
Pagina 150 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Pagina xiii - Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see : and they glorified the God of Israel.