An Inquiry Into the Consistency of Popular Amusements with a Profession of ChristianityWm. Riley, Church-street, 1825 - 183 ページ |
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180 ページ - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
137 ページ - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
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83 ページ - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
126 ページ - And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.