The application of Christianity to the commercial and ordinary affairs of life1820 |
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... , pressing on the natural boundaries of trade , is sure , at length , to visit every country , where it operates with the recoil of all those calamities , which , in the shape of beggared capitalists , and unemployed operatives , and.
... , pressing on the natural boundaries of trade , is sure , at length , to visit every country , where it operates with the recoil of all those calamities , which , in the shape of beggared capitalists , and unemployed operatives , and.
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... sure and steady dependence on the reported honesty of one whom he never saw ; when , with all his fears for the treachery of the varied elements , through which his property has to pass , he knows , that should it only arrive at the ...
... sure and steady dependence on the reported honesty of one whom he never saw ; when , with all his fears for the treachery of the varied elements , through which his property has to pass , he knows , that should it only arrive at the ...
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... sure to draw around him . But what reward , will you tell us , is due to him on the great day of the manifestation of God's righteousness , when , in fact , he has done nothing unto God ? What recompense can be awarded to him out of ...
... sure to draw around him . But what reward , will you tell us , is due to him on the great day of the manifestation of God's righteousness , when , in fact , he has done nothing unto God ? What recompense can be awarded to him out of ...
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... sure to leave the vast majority of the world be- hind them . Simplicity and godly sincerity form essential ingredients of that peculiarity by which they stand signalized in the midst of an ungodly generation . The true friends of the ...
... sure to leave the vast majority of the world be- hind them . Simplicity and godly sincerity form essential ingredients of that peculiarity by which they stand signalized in the midst of an ungodly generation . The true friends of the ...
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... sure to carry general applause along with them , and thus to combine both the characteristics of our text —that he who in these things serveth Christ , is both acceptable to God , and approved of men . But there is another set of ...
... sure to carry general applause along with them , and thus to combine both the characteristics of our text —that he who in these things serveth Christ , is both acceptable to God , and approved of men . But there is another set of ...
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Page 173 - Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Page 269 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us all things richly to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate ; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 210 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 223 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
Page vii - For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Page 128 - Him who became sin for us, though He knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
Page 245 - If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence...
Page 101 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 170 - We speak not of his poverty all the time that he lived upon earth. We speak not of those years when, a houseless wanderer in an unthankful world, he had not where to lay his head. We speak not of the meek and uncomplaining sufferance with which he met the many ills that oppressed the tenor of his mortal existence. But we speak of that awful burden which crushed and overwhelmed its termination. We speak of that season of the hour and the power of darkness, when it pleased the Lord to bruise him, and...
Page 238 - And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.