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... piety to commence . I do not say simply that it would be most desirable for it to commence then , but that it is the most favorable time . The word of God teaches us , that when habits of sin have become fixed , the breaking of these ...
... piety to commence . I do not say simply that it would be most desirable for it to commence then , but that it is the most favorable time . The word of God teaches us , that when habits of sin have become fixed , the breaking of these ...
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... piety is more favorable five years after moral agency commences , than fifty years after ; and more favorable at an earlier period , than at the age of five years . It is easier bending the young sapling , than the sturdy oak , and ...
... piety is more favorable five years after moral agency commences , than fifty years after ; and more favorable at an earlier period , than at the age of five years . It is easier bending the young sapling , than the sturdy oak , and ...
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... piety than five ? than two ? But is it said , that there is not that capacity to repent in the infantile years , that there is at maturer age ? What if there is not ? Neither is there that guilt to repent of . That man has not the ...
... piety than five ? than two ? But is it said , that there is not that capacity to repent in the infantile years , that there is at maturer age ? What if there is not ? Neither is there that guilt to repent of . That man has not the ...
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... piety ? Who , with a mind ever so much matured and cultivated , could have been a messenger of sweeter conso- lation to a bleeding heart , than was this little one ? I will mention one instance more . In the town of in New - England ...
... piety ? Who , with a mind ever so much matured and cultivated , could have been a messenger of sweeter conso- lation to a bleeding heart , than was this little one ? I will mention one instance more . In the town of in New - England ...
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... piety , -that the fact of the mind's not having arrived at its maturity , at this period , so far from being an objection to the practicability of their early conversion , is directly in favor of it , because their guilt is less than at ...
... piety , -that the fact of the mind's not having arrived at its maturity , at this period , so far from being an objection to the practicability of their early conversion , is directly in favor of it , because their guilt is less than at ...
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