The Story of a Pocket Bible - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt: ... his leave. My owner, in much perturbation of spirit, soon afterwards quitted the room also, and for some days I was left unheeded in the ignominious situation into which I had been cast. CHAPTER XVII. The itomanist mhant, fHAVE already said that the merchant into whose possession I had fallen, had taken refuge in the forms and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic church, to satisfy the demands of an unenlightened conscience, ill at ease with itself, and craving for rest and peace. I may add that the same cause had made him scrupulously attentive to those forms and ceremonies, without producing any change of heart towards God. And herein did he resemble the greater number of those by whom he was surrounded, who, indeed, took but small pains to cover, even with the slight veil of decency, the impurities of a godless life, while, at the same time, they took pride in the outward observances of religion, and trusted in "the lying words" of those who, like some of old of whom I tell, loudly and arrogantly proclaimed, "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, are" these; and who made the commandments of God of none effect by their traditions. Thus, in that land of splendid edifices, reared professedly for Divine worship; of gorgeous rites affecting the eye and the ear, but leaving the heart uninstructed and barren; of rich priestly vestments; of symbolical representations of Him who died and rose again and ever lives, and of carved and molten images of inferior objects of adoration--were to be seen also the manifest and glaring vices of impiety, debauchery, and lust, not covertly seeking the darkness of night, but flaunting in the light of noonday. There were to be found, in full display, the profanation of the holy day, the disregard ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150763213
- ISBN 13 9781150763212
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages90
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