The Bible and Civil Government: In a Course of LecturesR. Carter, 1851 - 278 páginas |
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... effect . The Roman patrician knew nothing of it , nor did he act upon it . Had you told him that he was sprung from the same dust as the humble plebeian , he would have laughed you to scorn . We might also compare freedom as she is here ...
... effect . The Roman patrician knew nothing of it , nor did he act upon it . Had you told him that he was sprung from the same dust as the humble plebeian , he would have laughed you to scorn . We might also compare freedom as she is here ...
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... effect of despotism on the despot himself . The possession of power without responsibility might corrupt an angel . It was their grasping after it that caused angels to fall , and converted them into fiends . We can then readily ...
... effect of despotism on the despot himself . The possession of power without responsibility might corrupt an angel . It was their grasping after it that caused angels to fall , and converted them into fiends . We can then readily ...
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... effect on men born a fallen race , and " whose feet " from infancy had been " swift to shed blood . " Accordingly the thrones of that day became filled by kings who were rather monsters than men , and who sported with the lives and ...
... effect on men born a fallen race , and " whose feet " from infancy had been " swift to shed blood . " Accordingly the thrones of that day became filled by kings who were rather monsters than men , and who sported with the lives and ...
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... effect , you will find them admirably adapted to their end , giving equal security to the poor and to the rich against violence and wrong . Their courts of justice were of various grades ; some known as High Courts of Appeal ; and ...
... effect , you will find them admirably adapted to their end , giving equal security to the poor and to the rich against violence and wrong . Their courts of justice were of various grades ; some known as High Courts of Appeal ; and ...
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... the less a trust , according to the appointment of God . And if it becomes so abused as to effect the injury and not the benefit of the ruled , in such case * Note H. the end of the Most High in ordaining government , SECOND LECTURE , 75.
... the less a trust , according to the appointment of God . And if it becomes so abused as to effect the injury and not the benefit of the ruled , in such case * Note H. the end of the Most High in ordaining government , SECOND LECTURE , 75.
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Página 56 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Página 93 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Página 13 - Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Página 98 - Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Página 265 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Página 73 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Página 265 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Página 100 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Página 125 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Página 131 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.