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... poor illiterate fishermen by trade , who never had studied the Law , quoting the Scriptures and expounding the divine Oracles , with as much facility as if they were so many inspired Angels that descended from Heaven . Nothing was able ...
... poor illiterate fishermen by trade , who never had studied the Law , quoting the Scriptures and expounding the divine Oracles , with as much facility as if they were so many inspired Angels that descended from Heaven . Nothing was able ...
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... poor , who would supply their wants ? If all were equally rich and at their ease , who would work for them ? Who would apply to hard labour and useful industry ? Who would till and cultivate the earth in the sweat of their brow ? In the ...
... poor , who would supply their wants ? If all were equally rich and at their ease , who would work for them ? Who would apply to hard labour and useful industry ? Who would till and cultivate the earth in the sweat of their brow ? In the ...
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... poor little orphans and helpless children , shall be the second point , and the subject of your favourable attention . Let us previously implore the light of the Holy Ghost , through the intercession of the blessed Virgin , & c . Ave ...
... poor little orphans and helpless children , shall be the second point , and the subject of your favourable attention . Let us previously implore the light of the Holy Ghost , through the intercession of the blessed Virgin , & c . Ave ...
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... poor , as St. Augustine observes . Hence the Scripture calls the alms given to the poor a debt , and the refusal of it a defrauding the poor . Son , says the Lord , Eccls . c . iv . v . 1 , 8 , defraud not the poor of alms , and turn ...
... poor , as St. Augustine observes . Hence the Scripture calls the alms given to the poor a debt , and the refusal of it a defrauding the poor . Son , says the Lord , Eccls . c . iv . v . 1 , 8 , defraud not the poor of alms , and turn ...
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... poor in extreme neces- sity , who perish with hunger in the place where thou livest , when thou hast it in thy power and thou dost not relieve them . Hence it is that the uncharitable Priest and Levite are so justly condemned in the ...
... poor in extreme neces- sity , who perish with hunger in the place where thou livest , when thou hast it in thy power and thou dost not relieve them . Hence it is that the uncharitable Priest and Levite are so justly condemned in the ...
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Page 89 - And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works that they had seen; 38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord : Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Page 216 - I say to you, Love your enemies : do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.
Page 136 - AND there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars : and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Page 245 - ... that can be met with in the conversation of his creatures. Even in the hour of death he considers the pains of his dissolution to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition, which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him, and is about to manifest itself to him in fulness of joy.
Page 102 - Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 101 - For who maketh thee to differ from another.' and what hast thou that thou didst not receive'.' now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Page 291 - So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
Page 295 - Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible : and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only- begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages : God of God ; Light of light ; true God of true God ; begotten, not made ; consubstantial to the Father, by whom all things were made...
Page 298 - Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried ; he descended into hell ; the third day he rose again from the dead ; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
Page 66 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.