Of the Light of Nature

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T. Constable and Company, 1857 - 298 pages

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Page 110 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Page 275 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Page xxiii - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side...
Page 186 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 97 - Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also : 30 Seeing °it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Page 18 - The next day he made the sun and moon — the sun to rule the day, and the moon to rule the night.
Page 77 - Canveniency, and Analogy, which some Objects have with its Essence, as that it cannot but encline to them; and that there is such an irreconcileable Disconvenience, such an Eternal Antipathy between it and other Objects, as that it must cease to be what it is, before it can come near them. This Suarez terms a Natural Obligation, and a just foundation for a Law. But now, before all this can rise up to the height and perfection of a Law, there must come a Command from some Superiour Power, from ''...
Page 17 - Faith may kiss each other. There is a twin-light springing from both, and they both spring from the same Fountain of light, and they both sweetly conspire in the same end, the glory of that being, from which they shine, and the* welfare, and happiness of that being, upon which they shine.

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