The Christian emigrantReligious Tract Society, 1849 - 260 pages |
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... Deity on a large scale does the simple knowledge of these facts occasion ! How might we expatiate on this beautiful ever - flowing circula- tion in the great frame of the world ; this easy , and apparently simple , and yet this immense ...
... Deity on a large scale does the simple knowledge of these facts occasion ! How might we expatiate on this beautiful ever - flowing circula- tion in the great frame of the world ; this easy , and apparently simple , and yet this immense ...
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... Deity , it is so consonant to our nature , that when once suggested it is received and retained with a tena- city which increases with all the increasing disco- veries of our reasoning powers . Nothing that has a beginning could have ...
... Deity , it is so consonant to our nature , that when once suggested it is received and retained with a tena- city which increases with all the increasing disco- veries of our reasoning powers . Nothing that has a beginning could have ...
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... in the multiplicity of their deities , and in the worship of all Gods but the true one ; their fables , however , still supposing some common truth for their origin . And while , on the one hand , the human ON GOD AND HIS ATTRIBUTES . 103.
... in the multiplicity of their deities , and in the worship of all Gods but the true one ; their fables , however , still supposing some common truth for their origin . And while , on the one hand , the human ON GOD AND HIS ATTRIBUTES . 103.
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... Deity , all the other proofs of whose existence he has rendered nugatory , retains yet one fearful arrow in his quiver which will make him feel it in the vengeance that he executeth . " He who seriously ponders the evidence that is ...
... Deity , all the other proofs of whose existence he has rendered nugatory , retains yet one fearful arrow in his quiver which will make him feel it in the vengeance that he executeth . " He who seriously ponders the evidence that is ...
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... Deity thus to have withdrawn himself from a world that he had made , and to leave it to itself , is unnatural , and betrays an entire unacquaintedness with his nature and perfections . It is to suppose those perfections quiescent ...
... Deity thus to have withdrawn himself from a world that he had made , and to leave it to itself , is unnatural , and betrays an entire unacquaintedness with his nature and perfections . It is to suppose those perfections quiescent ...
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Page 234 - Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Page 106 - tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste, as in the city full ; And where he vital breathes, there must be joy.
Page 119 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 246 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 177 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Page 253 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Page 197 - Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Page 227 - His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Page 238 - He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Page 240 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity : he that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword.