Philosophical partMarsh, Capen & Lyon, 1833 |
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... nature and heaven . The whole tendency of barbaric philosophy , though employed upon important subjects , both divine and human , was mystical . Instead of investigating truth from clear principles , there was every where a public , or ...
... nature and heaven . The whole tendency of barbaric philosophy , though employed upon important subjects , both divine and human , was mystical . Instead of investigating truth from clear principles , there was every where a public , or ...
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... nature of things , considered the external objects much more than the na- ture of man , and in men paid little attention to those subjects in which the happiness of human life is immediately concerned . They admired virtue and extolled ...
... nature of things , considered the external objects much more than the na- ture of man , and in men paid little attention to those subjects in which the happiness of human life is immediately concerned . They admired virtue and extolled ...
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... human bodies as into a sepulchre or prison . From this cause he derived the depravity and misery to which human nature is liable . Life is the conjunction of the soul with the body , death is their separation . The human soul consists ...
... human bodies as into a sepulchre or prison . From this cause he derived the depravity and misery to which human nature is liable . Life is the conjunction of the soul with the body , death is their separation . The human soul consists ...
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... condition of human nature will permit . This likeness consists in prudence , justice , sanctity and temperance . To attain this state it is necessary to be convinced that the body is a prison , from which the soul must be released ...
... condition of human nature will permit . This likeness consists in prudence , justice , sanctity and temperance . To attain this state it is necessary to be convinced that the body is a prison , from which the soul must be released ...
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... natural appearances is tedious . In his metaphysical doctrine of the Deity and ... nature , and so removed from the inferior parts of the universe that he is ... human soul has three faculties : nutritive , sensitive and rational . By the ...
... natural appearances is tedious . In his metaphysical doctrine of the Deity and ... nature , and so removed from the inferior parts of the universe that he is ... human soul has three faculties : nutritive , sensitive and rational . By the ...
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Page 139 - All things come alike to all : there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked ; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not : as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 148 - God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Page 172 - For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Page 61 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Page 150 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Page 172 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 139 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 117 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 3° Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called : and whom he called, them he also justified : and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Page 146 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 123 - ... doing this, we naturally and unavoidably approve some actions, under the peculiar view of their being virtuous and of good desert; and disapprove" others, as vicious and of ill desert.