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Henry Thornton, M.P., Family Prayers, and Prayers on the Ten Commandments, &c., to which is added A Family Commentary upon the Sermon on the Mount, edited by Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D.D. (New York: Sheldon and Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1860), Family Commentary, XXXV, pp. 297–298

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Christianity not only instructs us in our duties; it also provides for our comfort. The precepts of Christ in this passage evidently tend to our happiness. All anxious care is here forbidden; all uneasy fear respecting t…

Henry Thornton · Henry Thornton, M.P., Family Prayers, and Prayers on the Ten Commandments, &c., to which is added A Family Commentary upon the Sermon on the Mount, edited by Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D.D. (New York: Sheldon and Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1860), Family Commentary, XXXV, pp. 297–298
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