Christian prayer and general laws. Burney prize ssay, 1873. With an appendix, The physical efficacy of prayer |
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à priori objection absolutely action adduced admit Almighty analogy answer Prayer answer to Prayer appear assert assume belief Brooks causation character Christ's College Christian conceive conception conclusion conservation of energy considered course of nature degree Deity direct Divine doctrine Duke of Argyll effects efficacy of Prayer endeavour Energy Essay evident existence experience fact faculties force fore-ordination former Galton's Hence human idea ignorance impossible inconceivable indefinite inference influence intellectual intelligence Knight knowledge latter logical ment merely metaphysical method mind miracle mode Natural Law necessity objections to Prayer observed perceive petition phænomena physical benefits physical efficacy physical results possible pray Prayer for physical pre-established harmony present argument priori probability question rational reason relation Religion Revelation Science scientific proposition Scripture second causes sense shew shewn sidereal sphere suppose supposition Supreme Intelligence things thought tion transcendental true truth ultimate universal proposition Universe unknown whole wholly
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Page 125 - I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Page 175 - For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Page 123 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Page 238 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.
Page 74 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 8 - A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.
Page 108 - The uniformity in the succession of events, otherwise called the law of causation, must be received not as a law of the universe, but of that portion of it only which is within the range of our means of sure observation, with a reasonable degree of extension to adjacent cases.
Page 181 - Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Page 196 - The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 44 - The notion of causation is deemed, by the schools of metaphysics most in vogue at the present moment, to imply a mysterious and most powerful tie, such as cannot, or at least does not, exist between any physical fact and that other physical fact on which it is invariably consequent, and which is popularly termed its cause...