Date: 1784, 1804
"The apostle wishes and prays that the sovereign and all-conquering grace of God might reign and rule in their hearts and consciences."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1784, 1804
"The apostle well knew that erroneous men would be busy in besieging their understandings, and that carnal objects would be labouring to engross their affections; vanity to entertain their minds, pleasures to attract their desires, and legality to entangle and govern their consciences."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1784, 1804
" When thus entangled we try to resist, but are still rebuffed or beaten back; this causes rebellion and murmuring to take possession of our hearts."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1784, 1804
"[A]nd that the altogether lovely Saviour might be enthroned, exalted, and admired, in the throne of their hearts"
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Date: 1789
"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Date: 1789
"In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire [pain and pleasure]: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while"
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Date: May 13, 1789
"[T]he Slave Trade has enslaved their [Africans'] minds, blackened their character and sunk them so low in the scale of animal beings, that some think the very apes are of a higher class, and fancy the Ourang Outang has given them the go-by."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)