his followers
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Icefireaa Asasasa
January 28, 2011 at 2:42am
his followers
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He indulged his followers in the full gratification of their luft; and the future rewards he promifed to them was a paradife of fenfual pleafures. Thefe, then, were different lures held out to attradt men, and to gain profelytes to his religion.But the everblefled Jefus, difclaiming all fuch friends, propofed to the world MBT Shoes Clearance the fublime truths of his gofpel, for the foundation of their hopes, and the pureft morals for the government of their lives. How powerful then muft that evidence MBT Shoes have been, that enabled this religion at laft, to triumph over all oppofition, to conquer all prejudice, and to eftalih itfelf firmly on earth!And though men, though its profeffors do by no means live up to thefe morals, yet every unj prejudiced mind muft acknowledge the force of fuch evidence, and the purity of all its laws. They muft confefs, that it is the only religion, given to the wofld, worthy of the perfe&ions;of the Supreme Being, the beft accommodated to man, and the fureft road to eternal life. The Chriflian Religion has all the marks of an unU verfal Religion.i. HTHE religious late of the world and its political fituation at the coming of Chrift: the great change immediately produced, together with the univerfal oppofition, that he and his difciples met with in their tory burch outlet labours, and their renouncing every afliftancp from the prejudices of mankind, are all indirect evidences of its truth, and prove to MBT Shoes Clearance us that this fyftem muft have been derived from fome fupernatural fource, and fupported by fome invifible hand. Such fpeculations fhould help to prepare us to give a patient hearing to the claims of the gofpel and fhould engage us to weigh ferioufly the offers it holds out of eternal life. Such uncommon appearances fhould direft our attention to the hand of Providence, thus opening fome new and interefting profpe&s;to man. I propofe then, in this place, tory burch shoes to introduce a general view and chara&er;of the religion of Jefus Chrift, to enable us to judge how far it correfponded with the natural wants and wifhes of the human .heart; and what were the great benefits it conferred on the vorld.In this enquiry, the firft thing that ftrikes our attention is, that it bears the evident marks of being intended for an univerfal religion; for the tory burch sale benefit of the whole world j and for all ranks and characters; for the poor and for the rich; for the ignorant and the wife; for the learned and tory burch flats for the unlearned.
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