The Contemporary Review, 15. köideA. Strahan, 1870 |
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... less matter of fact region of religious thought . " Sirs , ye are brethren " -words many times . spoken to unheeding ears , have at length begun to sound in the inner hearts of the sober and practical as well as in those of the ...
... less matter of fact region of religious thought . " Sirs , ye are brethren " -words many times . spoken to unheeding ears , have at length begun to sound in the inner hearts of the sober and practical as well as in those of the ...
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... less a writer than M. Guizot holds , from the idleness , corruption , and unhappiness of society at the time ? Did the absolute submission of the monk to his abbot , appearing as it did under the Roman empire , arise out of the worship ...
... less a writer than M. Guizot holds , from the idleness , corruption , and unhappiness of society at the time ? Did the absolute submission of the monk to his abbot , appearing as it did under the Roman empire , arise out of the worship ...
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... less , or more acutely , the misery which his sin brought upon his house , for being a pardoned penitent ? The real effect of pardon cannot be better stated than in that verse of Psalm li . which we have just cited . It is the annulling ...
... less , or more acutely , the misery which his sin brought upon his house , for being a pardoned penitent ? The real effect of pardon cannot be better stated than in that verse of Psalm li . which we have just cited . It is the annulling ...
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... less correct than even our present Bible version : but it is admirably suited for chanting , and in beauty and melody of language vastly surpasses the other . It should be an " instruction " to the Revisers of the Psalms , to bear this ...
... less correct than even our present Bible version : but it is admirably suited for chanting , and in beauty and melody of language vastly surpasses the other . It should be an " instruction " to the Revisers of the Psalms , to bear this ...
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... less by unworthy concession , the abandonment of any doctrine we hold to be true , or any- thing approaching to acquiescence in the idea that in relation to religious truth there can be no certitude . The more excellent way in which the ...
... less by unworthy concession , the abandonment of any doctrine we hold to be true , or any- thing approaching to acquiescence in the idea that in relation to religious truth there can be no certitude . The more excellent way in which the ...
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Page 538 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Page 533 - WHOSOEVER will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 583 - ... hath given power and commandment to his Ministers, to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the Absolution and Remission of their sins: He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel.
Page 143 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 33 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 533 - He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation 'that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 86 - I must again repeat what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.
Page 83 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
Page 87 - The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that, except in some unusual circumstances or by an effort of voluntary abstraction, he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body; and this association is riveted more and more, as mankind are further removed from the state of savage independence.
Page 524 - IV. We shall also with all faithfulness endeavour the discovery of all such as have been or shall be, Incendiaries, Malignants, or evil Instruments by hindering the Reformation of Religion, dividing the King from his People, or one of the Kingdoms from another, or making any Faction or Parties amongst the people, contrary to the League and Covenant, that they may be brought to public Trial and receive condign punishment...