Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the PeopleHarper & brothers, 1857 - 358 pages |
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Page 292 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 273 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : The overflowing of the water passed by: The deep uttered his voice, And lifted up his hands on high. The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: At the light of thine arrows they went, And at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Page 292 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Page 130 - Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Page 350 - To aid in securing to American women a liberal education, honorable position, and remunerative employment...
Page 301 - After the appointment of Arminius to the theological chair at Leyden, he thought it his duty to avow and vindicate the principles which he had embraced ; and the freedom with which he published and defended them,' exposed him to the resentment of those that adhered to the theological system of Geneva, which then prevaled in Holland ; but his principal opponent was Gomar, his colleague.
Page xviii - I was taught to look at God as a great moral governor, whose chief interest was to sustain his law. Then there seemed to be two kinds of right and wrong, the common and the Evangelical.
Page xvi - God made me and all things . . . that he knew all I thought and did; that because Adam and Eve disobeyed him once only, he drove them out of Eden, and then so arranged it that all their descendants would be born with wicked hearts, and that, though this did not seem either just or good, it was so; that I had such a wicked heart that I could not feel or act right in...
Page xvi - Socially, I was good natured and sympathizing, so that my jokes and tricks were never such as to tease or annoy others. Morally, I had a strong sense of justice, but was not naturally so conscientious as some of the other children. Add to these, persevering energy, great self-reliance, and such cheerful hopefulness that the idea of danger or failure never entered my head. Even to this day, perfect success and no mischances are always anticipated till reason corrects the calculation. Catharine was,...
Page 287 - ... without being questioned by his subjects. He then enacts, that any person who is found to use tobacco, or even to have a single seed or plant on his premises, shall be burned alive in a caldron of fire and brimstone. If, in addition to this, that king were to command supreme love to him, and perfect confidence in his wisdom, justice, and goodness, all this would but faintly illustrate...