The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... turn them over to another , a capricious , an imaginary power . We do not , it is true , so much arraign his general provi- dence , as his particular appointments . We will allow the world to be nominally his , if he will allow us our ...
... turn them over to another , a capricious , an imaginary power . We do not , it is true , so much arraign his general provi- dence , as his particular appointments . We will allow the world to be nominally his , if he will allow us our ...
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... turns their sins and follies to such uses , that while by the voluntary commission of them they are bringing down destruction on their own heads , they are not impeding his purposes . Nor does Providence , in his wide arrangements ...
... turns their sins and follies to such uses , that while by the voluntary commission of them they are bringing down destruction on their own heads , they are not impeding his purposes . Nor does Providence , in his wide arrangements ...
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... turning our suffering to our benefit , repairs by grace the evils produced by sin . Without being the author of evil , the bare suggestion of which is blasphemy , he converts it to his own glory , by causing the effects of it to promote ...
... turning our suffering to our benefit , repairs by grace the evils produced by sin . Without being the author of evil , the bare suggestion of which is blasphemy , he converts it to his own glory , by causing the effects of it to promote ...
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... turning point between infidelity and piety , whether he should follow his own will , or the will of God . He did not amuse his curiosity with speculative ques- tions . His own immediate and grand concern engrossed his whole soul . Nor ...
... turning point between infidelity and piety , whether he should follow his own will , or the will of God . He did not amuse his curiosity with speculative ques- tions . His own immediate and grand concern engrossed his whole soul . Nor ...
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... turns them to our spiritual good , they almost perform the miracles which blind superstition ascribes to the false one . God mercifully takes from us what we have not courage to offer him ; but if , when he resumes it , he sanctifies ...
... turns them to our spiritual good , they almost perform the miracles which blind superstition ascribes to the false one . God mercifully takes from us what we have not courage to offer him ; but if , when he resumes it , he sanctifies ...
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