The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united... The Methodist Quarterly Review - Page 3661854Full view - About this book
| 1855 - 534 pages
...Education? we come to again. " The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may be nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...withheld the Bible from the laity. — Colton. LEARNING, ITS END. — The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue. — Milton. LEARNING, ITS ORDER. —... | |
| United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1854 - 764 pages
...excluded from our schools, it being " the end of learning to repair the ruins of the fall, by teaching to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him and obey him;" that, therefore, the General Assembly reaffirms its approval, so often expressed in former... | |
| William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 pages
...THE AUTHOR. BOOK IV. " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which... | |
| John Wilson - 1855 - 508 pages
...defined to Master Hartlib, " the end" of which " is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which... | |
| 1855 - 346 pages
...object: — " The end," he says, "of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be h'ke him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which,... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...learning.—Dr T. Fuller. 20. The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...learning.—Dr T. Fuller. 20. The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which... | |
| 1856 - 352 pages
...learning," he says in the same treatise, " is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which,... | |
| 1856 - 570 pages
...undevout, Frozen at heart, while Speculation shines. iLearntng. — end of Learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true Virtue. . — Bishop Earie. J^ PRETENDER to... | |
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