Memoir of the Life and Character of the Rev. Samuel Bacon, A.M.: Late, an Officer of Marines in the United States' Service: Afterwards, Attorney at Law in the State of Pennsylvania: and Subsequently, a Minister of the Episcopal Church, and Principal Agent of the American Government for Persons Librated from Slave-ships, on the Coast of Africa; where He Terminated His Life in the Month of May, 1820

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Page 24 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Page 185 - Saviour's benediction and promise, 'blessed are ' they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they ' shall be filled,' have their partial accomplishment, in the
Page 144 - rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, and in every thing give thanks," — immediately adds, (as if on purpose to answer those, who denied, not the power, but the will of God to work in them,) " For this is the will of God concerning you in Christ Jesus." Nay, and it is remarkable, that after he had delivered that glorious promise, (such it properly is,) in the twenty-third...
Page 179 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?
Page ii - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Page 26 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 264 - We have suffered much from the depredations of our own people ! Even our high-toned professors have been repeatedly detected in petty thefts, falsehood, and mischiefs of the most disgraceful nature. I am pained to the heart, with these indications of gross hypocrisy. — It is a dark picture : but its shades are truth.
Page ii - Wilson, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor, in the words following...
Page 177 - Lord have mercy on us, and save us from ' hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment.
Page 134 - A number of souls were brought to sincere repentance, and saved from their sins, ' by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost,' through his direct instrumentality.

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