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" ... land." Pride, ambition, revenge, the love of glory, all which Christianity is intended to extirpate from the human breast, and which have been the bane and misery of man, are here traced to a source which makes me shudder : — the inspiration of... "
An essay on the character, immoral, and antichristian tendency of the stage - Page 94
by John Styles - 1806 - 139 pages
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An Essay on the Character and Influence of the Stage on Morals and Happiness

John Styles - 1807 - 216 pages
...which makes me shudder : — the inspiration of Jehovah hath fill'd her son's breast with the SACRED fire of these unhallowed passions! What page of the...divine is determined to write a tragedy, and, for the sake of stage effect, .he ventures to make the ETEUNAJL GOD one of the dramatis persons ; and calls...
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An Essay on the Character and Influence of the Stage on Morals and Happiness

John Styles - 1807 - 216 pages
...source which makes me shudder:—the inspiration of Jehovah hath lill'd her son's breast with the SACRED fire of these unhallowed passions! What page of the...divine is determined to write a tragedy, and, for the sake of stage effect, he ventures to make the ETERNAL Gou one of the dramatis peisonae; and calls him...
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An Essay on the Character and Influence of the Stage

John Styles - 1815 - 254 pages
...which makes me shudder: — the inspiration of Jehovah hath filled her son's breast with the SACRED fire of these unhallowed passions ! What page of the...opinion on the subject. What I have hinted before, the shocking profaneuess of such appeals to heaven from an actress on the Stage, must chill every pious...
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The Friend of Peace, Volume 4

1827 - 548 pages
...Gospels. The unequivocal disapprohation, with which war is spoken of, should be pointed out to them. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not of your lusts ?" If the Bible is indeed a standard of faith, they should early learn to dread lowering the standard...
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The Yorkshireman, a religious and literary journal, by a Friend [L ..., Volume 2

Luke Howard - 1834 - 410 pages
...our neighbours, to promote this blessed result? WE MAY PKOCL.UJI AND SPREAD SOUND PRINCIPLES. 'From whence come wars and fightings among you — come they not of your lusts which war in your members ? ' — Of those very stirrings of your corrupt nature which, appearing in...
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The Political Economy of the New Testament

William Innes - 1839 - 246 pages
...prevalence would at once furnish a perfect security against war, and all its accompanying horrors. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not of your lusts, which war in your members ?" They originate in covetousness — a desire to possess what belongs to...
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The Battle and Burden of Life

James Baldwin Brown - 1875 - 192 pages
...spirit of peace; the spirit of faith and rest in God. " We which have believed do enter into rest." But "whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not of your lusts?" Cast out this lusting demon; grow like to the helpful angels. Care supremely for the good of which...
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The Battle and Burden of Life

James Baldwin Brown - 1875 - 196 pages
...spirit of peace ; the spirit of faith aud rest in God. " We which have believed do enter into rest." But "whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not of your lusts ? " Cast out this lusting demon; grow like to the helpful angels. Care supremely for the good of which...
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Studies in life, lectures

Hugh Sinclair Paterson - 1880 - 208 pages
...thoughtful enough, we could put an end to war, famine, and pestilence to a very large extent indeed. "From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not of your own lusts which war in your members ? " We gave a grand exhibition to the world of the true method...
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The Congregationalist, Volume 2

Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1873 - 786 pages
...peace ; the spirit of faith and of rest in God. " We which have believed do enter into rest." But " whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not of your lusts ? " Cast out this lusting demon ; grow like to the helpful angels. Care supremely for the good of which...
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