The Friend of Peace: To which is Prefixed A Solemn Review of the Custom of War; Showing that War is the Effect of Popular Delusion, and Proposing a RemedyAnsel Phelps, 1817 - 281 strán (strany) |
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... custom of the ancient heathens in offering their children in sacrifice to idols . We are shocked with the customs of the Hindoos , in pros- trating themselves before the car of an idol to be crush- ed to death ; in burning women alive ...
... custom of the ancient heathens in offering their children in sacrifice to idols . We are shocked with the customs of the Hindoos , in pros- trating themselves before the car of an idol to be crush- ed to death ; in burning women alive ...
Strana 4
... custom is or is not the effect of delusion . Certainly there is no cus- tom which deserves a more thorough examination , than that which has occasioned more slaughter and misery , than all the other abominable customs of the heathen ...
... custom is or is not the effect of delusion . Certainly there is no cus- tom which deserves a more thorough examination , than that which has occasioned more slaughter and misery , than all the other abominable customs of the heathen ...
Strana 9
... custom ; but war is as much more horrible , as it is more desolating and ruin- As to the principles on which war is practised , it has no advantage of duelling . It is in fact national du- elling , attended generally with this ...
... custom ; but war is as much more horrible , as it is more desolating and ruin- As to the principles on which war is practised , it has no advantage of duelling . It is in fact national du- elling , attended generally with this ...
Strana 13
... customs of the heathen ; but what custom of the heathen nations had a great- er effect in depraving the human character than the custom of war ? What is that feeling usually called a war spirit , but a deleterious compound of ...
... customs of the heathen ; but what custom of the heathen nations had a great- er effect in depraving the human character than the custom of war ? What is that feeling usually called a war spirit , but a deleterious compound of ...
Strana 14
... custom of war men are so deluded , that a ruler may give fifty or a hundred ception to this account - that Great Britain has been engag- ed in war the greater part of the time for a century , and that probably the moral and religious ...
... custom of war men are so deluded , that a ruler may give fifty or a hundred ception to this account - that Great Britain has been engag- ed in war the greater part of the time for a century , and that probably the moral and religious ...
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Strana 202 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Strana 202 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace...
Strana 203 - Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
Strana 193 - But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Strana 67 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Strana 217 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Strana 104 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps...
Strana 217 - ... for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Strana 217 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Strana 53 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands; and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet; All sheep and oxen ; yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea ; and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.