The Life and Correspondence of John Foster, Volume 2Wiley & Putnam, 1846 |
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... Clergy . · 181. To the Rev. Thomas Coles , on the death of his daughter . 182. To the Rev. John Fawcett • • 183. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle - The Ballot , No. 1 . 184. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle - The Ballot , No ...
... Clergy . · 181. To the Rev. Thomas Coles , on the death of his daughter . 182. To the Rev. John Fawcett • • 183. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle - The Ballot , No. 1 . 184. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle - The Ballot , No ...
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... clergy 450 230. To the Rev. Josiah Hill 452 231. To W. L. R. Cates , Esq . 455 232. To the Rev. Josiah Hill - State of the Nation - Anti - Corn- Law League . 456 233. To Mrs. Holbrooke 457 234. To the Rev. Josiah Hill - Agitation 460 ...
... clergy 450 230. To the Rev. Josiah Hill 452 231. To W. L. R. Cates , Esq . 455 232. To the Rev. Josiah Hill - State of the Nation - Anti - Corn- Law League . 456 233. To Mrs. Holbrooke 457 234. To the Rev. Josiah Hill - Agitation 460 ...
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... clergy are often worse paid than mechanics , although they are in general as well educated , and possess tastes as refined , as their diocesans . Pluralities also , I am willing to allow , are carried to an unjustifiable extent , to the ...
... clergy are often worse paid than mechanics , although they are in general as well educated , and possess tastes as refined , as their diocesans . Pluralities also , I am willing to allow , are carried to an unjustifiable extent , to the ...
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... clergy . At a later time , who were the most constant systematic opposers of an improved education of the common people ? The established clergy . Who frustrated so lately , Brougham's national plan for this object ? The clergy ; who ...
... clergy . At a later time , who were the most constant systematic opposers of an improved education of the common people ? The established clergy . Who frustrated so lately , Brougham's national plan for this object ? The clergy ; who ...
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... clergy . What is , at this very hour , the most fatal and withering blight on the interests and hopes of the Protestant religion in that country ? The established church . * In our own less unfortunate country , there are , it is ...
... clergy . What is , at this very hour , the most fatal and withering blight on the interests and hopes of the Protestant religion in that country ? The established church . * In our own less unfortunate country , there are , it is ...
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Page 166 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 512 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 565 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law : for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Page 124 - But he that knew not. and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Page 447 - ... short term of mortal existence (absurdly sometimes denominated a probation) under all the world's pernicious influences, with the addition of the malign and deadly one of the great tempter and destroyer, to confirm and augment the inherent depravity, on their speedy passage to everlasting woe, — I repeat, I am, without pretending to any extraordinary depth of feeling, amazed to conceive what they contrive to do with their sensibility, and in what manner they maintain a firm assurance of the...
Page 350 - LAING -A TOUR IN SWEDEN, In 1838 ; comprising observations on the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish Nation. By SAMUEL LAINO, Esq. 8vo. 12s. cloth. LAING. -NOTES OF A TRAVELLER...
Page 170 - For it is vain to deny, that the Church of England clergy have politically been a party in the country, from Elizabeth's time downwards, and a party opposed to the cause, which in the main has been the cause of improvement.
Page 444 - I hope, indeed may assume, that you are of a cheerful temperament; but are you not sometimes invaded by the darkest visions and reflections while casting your view over the scene of human existence, from the beginning to this hour ? To me it appears a most mysteriously awful economy, overspread by a lurid and dreadful shade.
Page 407 - ... case just the same if that sum of figures were multiplied by itself. And then think of man — his nature, his situation, the circumstances of his brief sojourn and trial on earth. Far be it from us to make light of the demerit of sin, and to remonstrate with the supreme Judge against a severe chastisement, of whatever moral nature we may regard the infliction to be.
Page 411 - ... necessitates a continuance of the criminality; the doctrine teaching that it is of the essence, and is an awful aggravation, of the original consignment, — that it dooms the condemned to maintain the criminal spirit unchanged for ever. The doom to sin as well as to suffer, and, according to the argument, to sin in order to suffer, is inflicted as the punishment of the sin committed in the mortal state. Virtually, therefore, the eternal punishment is the punishment of the sins of time.