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... society , any collective body of Atheists . A fingle one perhaps might here and there be found , as we sometimes fee monsters and unshapen births ; but for the generality they had always fuch instincts of a deity , that they never ...
... society , any collective body of Atheists . A fingle one perhaps might here and there be found , as we sometimes fee monsters and unshapen births ; but for the generality they had always fuch instincts of a deity , that they never ...
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... society the most plea- fant and useful , and that is the gift of speech : By means of which we can express our thoughts , maintain a mu- tual intelligence of minds one with another , and there- by divert our forrows , mingle our mirth ...
... society the most plea- fant and useful , and that is the gift of speech : By means of which we can express our thoughts , maintain a mu- tual intelligence of minds one with another , and there- by divert our forrows , mingle our mirth ...
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... society with others , or thro ' his own self - fuffi- ciency does not need it , belongs not to any common- wealth , but is either a wild beast or a God . We being therefore so framed for fociety , and under such necessi- ties of ...
... society with others , or thro ' his own self - fuffi- ciency does not need it , belongs not to any common- wealth , but is either a wild beast or a God . We being therefore so framed for fociety , and under such necessi- ties of ...
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... society . The less we love one another , the less prone we shall be to promote each other's wel- fare ; and confequently the less advantage we shall reap from our mutual society . But if instead of loving , we malign and hate each other ...
... society . The less we love one another , the less prone we shall be to promote each other's wel- fare ; and confequently the less advantage we shall reap from our mutual society . But if instead of loving , we malign and hate each other ...
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... society of heaven , and naturally press and incline us to confort with that wretched nation of spiteful and rancorous spi- rits , with whom we are already joined by likeness and communion of nature . But , oh ! much better were it for ...
... society of heaven , and naturally press and incline us to confort with that wretched nation of spiteful and rancorous spi- rits , with whom we are already joined by likeness and communion of nature . But , oh ! much better were it for ...
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Page 41 - ... us : and if we walk with God in all his ways, as he walks with us in all ours, we shall find perpetual reasons to enable us to keep that rule of God, " Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.
Page 252 - Finally, brethren, whatfoever things are ' true, whatfoever things are honeft, whatfoever things ' are juft, whatfoever things are pure, whatfoever things ' are lovely, whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think
Page 272 - Jefus the author and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame ; and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Page 272 - Being encompaffed with a cloud of witnefles, let us lay afide every weight, and the fin which doth fo eafily befet us : and let us run with patience the race that is fet before us...
Page 40 - ... that opens all his wants to him, that weeps before him for his sins, that asks remedy and support for his weakness, that fears him as a Judge, reverences him as a Lord, obeys him as a Father, and loves him as a Patron.
Page 242 - The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift ? For we being many are one bread, and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Page 38 - Him in the glass of the creation. In the face of the sun you may see God's beauty ; in the fire you may feel His heat warming ; in the water, His gentleness to refresh you...
Page 55 - The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the law.