Discourses on Human Nature, Human Life, and the Nature of ReligionC. S. Francis & Company, 1847 - 396 pages |
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... thoughts swelled to the great hope of immortality , were only a higher species of the animal creation , and must share its fate ; if this were true , his pretensions could justly create only a feeling of won- der , or of sadness . We ...
... thoughts swelled to the great hope of immortality , were only a higher species of the animal creation , and must share its fate ; if this were true , his pretensions could justly create only a feeling of won- der , or of sadness . We ...
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... thought ; that there is no God to man , but what has been conceived of in his own capa- cious and unmeasured understanding . These things we might say ; but I will rather meet the objector on his own ground , confident that I may ...
... thought ; that there is no God to man , but what has been conceived of in his own capa- cious and unmeasured understanding . These things we might say ; but I will rather meet the objector on his own ground , confident that I may ...
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... thoughts , any benevolent purposes , any sacred and holy communing , venture into the presence of the proud and selfish scorner of all goodness ! It has been said , that the letters your friends write to you , will show their opinion of ...
... thoughts , any benevolent purposes , any sacred and holy communing , venture into the presence of the proud and selfish scorner of all goodness ! It has been said , that the letters your friends write to you , will show their opinion of ...
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... other qualities . No , it has dread attendants ; attendants , I had almost said , that dignify even the wrong . A waiting conscience , visitings - Oh ! visit- ings of better thoughts , calls of honour and self ON HUMAN NATURE . 23.
... other qualities . No , it has dread attendants ; attendants , I had almost said , that dignify even the wrong . A waiting conscience , visitings - Oh ! visit- ings of better thoughts , calls of honour and self ON HUMAN NATURE . 23.
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Orville Dewey. ings of better thoughts , calls of honour and self respect come to the sinner ; terrific admonition whispering in his secret ear , prophetic warning pointing him to the dim and veiled shadows of future retribution , and ...
Orville Dewey. ings of better thoughts , calls of honour and self respect come to the sinner ; terrific admonition whispering in his secret ear , prophetic warning pointing him to the dim and veiled shadows of future retribution , and ...
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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 277 - I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
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 306 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
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 254 - Oh Grave ! where is thy Victory ? Oh Death ! where is thy Sting ? THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.
Page 244 - Jesus, Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever Thou wilt ask of God, God will give it Thee.
Page 349 - Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good ; seek peace and pursue it.
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.