Nephaleia, Or, Total Abstinence from Intoxicating Liquors in Man's Normal State of Health the Doctrine of the Bible: In a Series of Letters, with Addenda, to Edward C. Delavan : with Colored Plates of the Stomach as Affected by Strong Drink |
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... seem to be merely a giving up of a good thing , for a longer or shorter period , for the sake of a weak brother , instead of an imperative duty and precious privilege , consisting in the abandonment of an evil thing , alcoholic wine ...
... seem to be merely a giving up of a good thing , for a longer or shorter period , for the sake of a weak brother , instead of an imperative duty and precious privilege , consisting in the abandonment of an evil thing , alcoholic wine ...
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... seems , in a remarkable manner , to have been departed from by Divine wisdom . The Decalogue supplies general laws for man's government , but it does not condescend to enumerate the various modes in which persons may violate these laws ...
... seems , in a remarkable manner , to have been departed from by Divine wisdom . The Decalogue supplies general laws for man's government , but it does not condescend to enumerate the various modes in which persons may violate these laws ...
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... seem to possess certain qualities which might entitle them to be included in the same category with opium ; but universal experience has proved that they are articles which surpass that poison in their power to lead groups of mankind ...
... seem to possess certain qualities which might entitle them to be included in the same category with opium ; but universal experience has proved that they are articles which surpass that poison in their power to lead groups of mankind ...
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... every kind is an evil thing , as well at the Lord's table as at man's table , ere any prohibitory law , however perfect it may seem , can · strike at the root of the Upas tree of 16 BIBLICAL TEMPERANCE . LETTER III. ...
... every kind is an evil thing , as well at the Lord's table as at man's table , ere any prohibitory law , however perfect it may seem , can · strike at the root of the Upas tree of 16 BIBLICAL TEMPERANCE . LETTER III. ...
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... seem to have forgotten , or lightly to have borne in mind , that something must go before law , to make it strong and conscience - binding , viz : right principle derived from Divine truth . Arbitrary laws , built on a quick - sand ...
... seem to have forgotten , or lightly to have borne in mind , that something must go before law , to make it strong and conscience - binding , viz : right principle derived from Divine truth . Arbitrary laws , built on a quick - sand ...
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Page 211 - For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread : and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat : this is my body, which is broken for you : this do in remembrance of me.
Page 227 - And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: and both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, "They have no wine.
Page 140 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 296 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: For, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 78 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 201 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 296 - There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 90 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 79 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light...
Page 245 - What ! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in ? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not ? What shall I say to you ? shall I praise you in this ? I praise you not.