Of the Light of Nature: A DiscourseT. Constable, 1857 - 298 pages |
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Page xiii
... Divine Observations and Heavenly Exhor- tations , 1635 ; and he must have been an old man when he died , as Dr. Sibbs says of that little book , that it was begun about forty years ago . ' His only other writings are entitled , A Ready ...
... Divine Observations and Heavenly Exhor- tations , 1635 ; and he must have been an old man when he died , as Dr. Sibbs says of that little book , that it was begun about forty years ago . ' His only other writings are entitled , A Ready ...
Page xlii
... Divine nature . This position , so deeply rooted in the Platonic philosophy , and so eloquently asserted by Cicero , Plutarch , and other ancient moralists , had been nobly re - affirmed by Hooker , in the profound discourse on the ...
... Divine nature . This position , so deeply rooted in the Platonic philosophy , and so eloquently asserted by Cicero , Plutarch , and other ancient moralists , had been nobly re - affirmed by Hooker , in the profound discourse on the ...
Page xliii
... Divine nature , because it cannot eternally exist there as law , Culverwel repels by distinguish- ing between the perceptions , so to speak , of the Divine reason , and the movements of the Divine will : ' It is an eternal ordinance ...
... Divine nature , because it cannot eternally exist there as law , Culverwel repels by distinguish- ing between the perceptions , so to speak , of the Divine reason , and the movements of the Divine will : ' It is an eternal ordinance ...
Page xlvii
... Divine disclosure . This element of contingency must ever be an insuperable bar to a logically deduced and demonstrated Christianity . 2. Faith is the reception of the Divine testimony ; and this , remotely by its outward evidence , but ...
... Divine disclosure . This element of contingency must ever be an insuperable bar to a logically deduced and demonstrated Christianity . 2. Faith is the reception of the Divine testimony ; and this , remotely by its outward evidence , but ...
Page xlviii
... Divine testimony , however , cannot be said to be received on the evidence of miracles , that is , faith has no existence , until the inward light of the doctrine attested commend it to the soul . Nor does this inward light shine ...
... Divine testimony , however , cannot be said to be received on the evidence of miracles , that is , faith has no existence , until the inward light of the doctrine attested commend it to the soul . Nor does this inward light shine ...
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