Discourses on Human Nature, Human Life, and the Nature of ReligionC. S. Francis & Company, 1847 - 396 pages |
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... give the feeblest de- monstration , that it is not altogether deserved . The Essay- ist , Foster , says : " Might not all the Sermon - books in the English language , after the exception of three or four dozen volumes , be committed to ...
... give the feeblest de- monstration , that it is not altogether deserved . The Essay- ist , Foster , says : " Might not all the Sermon - books in the English language , after the exception of three or four dozen volumes , be committed to ...
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... give his noble brow to the smiting blush of shame , or his cheek to the dead- ly paleness of convicted dishonesty . Yes , it is a deg- radation unutterable , for a man to steep his soul in gross , sensual , besotting indulgence ; to ...
... give his noble brow to the smiting blush of shame , or his cheek to the dead- ly paleness of convicted dishonesty . Yes , it is a deg- radation unutterable , for a man to steep his soul in gross , sensual , besotting indulgence ; to ...
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... give you a degree of pain ; and for this reason : it immediately brings the sense of your own disap- pointment . Now it is not wrong perhaps , that you do regret your own failure ; it is probably unavoidable that you should . You feel ...
... give you a degree of pain ; and for this reason : it immediately brings the sense of your own disap- pointment . Now it is not wrong perhaps , that you do regret your own failure ; it is probably unavoidable that you should . You feel ...
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... give . The sinner is often dazzled by earthly fortune and pomp , but it is in the very midst of these things , that he sometimes most feels their emptiness ; that his higher nature most feels that it is solitary and unsatisfied . It is ...
... give . The sinner is often dazzled by earthly fortune and pomp , but it is in the very midst of these things , that he sometimes most feels their emptiness ; that his higher nature most feels that it is solitary and unsatisfied . It is ...
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... give testimony to a better nature . There is a higher power that bears sway in the human heart . It is remorse , sacred , uncompromising re- morse ; that will hear of no selfish calculations of pain and pleasure ; that demands to suffer ...
... give testimony to a better nature . There is a higher power that bears sway in the human heart . It is remorse , sacred , uncompromising re- morse ; that will hear of no selfish calculations of pain and pleasure ; that demands to suffer ...
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Page 314 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 89 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 85 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 123 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, ""Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 243 - Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever them wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
Page 261 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil ;
Page 158 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Page 356 - ... how to be ; loving, in reverent thoughts of the good God, and in kind thoughts of all his children. It is plain, not easy, not in that sense natural; but natural in its accordance with all the loftiest sentiments of thy nature, easy in this, that nothing ever sat with such perfect peace and calm upon thy soul as that will. It is so plain, that he who runs, may read. It is the way in which fools need not err. "For what doth the Lord require of thee," saith the prophet, indignant at the complaint...
Page 99 - Life, which in this solitude, with the mind's organ, I could hear, was no longer a maddening discord, but a melting one ; like inarticulate cries, and sobbings of a dumb creature, which in the ear of Heaven are prayers.
Page 200 - One fatal remembrance — one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes To which Life nothing darker nor brighter can bring, For which joy hath no balm — and affliction no sting.