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Anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men’s ignorance of the real an immediate cause.

Adam Clarke

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
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Bible God Holiness Man Precept Promise Reasonableness Wise
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other’s praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher
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Emotion God Man Pride Revelation Self Teacher Vanity
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
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Abraham Angel Expiation Human Nature Jesus Christ might People Redeemer Seed
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
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Act Communicate Devotion Fault Great Happiness Happy Other Sacrifice Self
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Christian InspirationalTongue Heart Prayer Require
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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Ascertained Clarkes Easily Extraction Family Norman People
The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
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Country Custom Discovered East Island Noticed Old Prevail Still Testament
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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Absorbed Gift Man Must Nothing Preacher Seem
They must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
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Forfeit Good Lose Multitude Opinion Reputation Soul
This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
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Answer Appear God Knowing Name Particular Patience Person Remember Think Waiting
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Assuming Deeply Dense Frequently Grab Humility Mask Pride Under
Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
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Cease God Man Refuse Run Running Send Woe
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
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Account Attendant Degree Heard History Lord Saw Spirit
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father’s house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
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Busy Dark Death Entry Father Good Little Man Room
If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Faithful Servant God Heart Honor Spirit
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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Accident Cause Ignorance Merely Real Signify Some Word

Anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men’s ignorance of the real an immediate cause.

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