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... doubt that such a life is , for most men , more truly wise and happy than one in which our tasks lie chiefly in the world of speculation ; and in which the principal events consist in our own solitary intellectual struggles . Yet to you ...
... doubt that such a life is , for most men , more truly wise and happy than one in which our tasks lie chiefly in the world of speculation ; and in which the principal events consist in our own solitary intellectual struggles . Yet to you ...
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... doubt that , in this way , we exercise a vast power , for good or for evil ? Men may sometimes scoff at such in- fluences ; but what serious man can fail to see , that the doctrines to which we give our sanction here , must sway and ...
... doubt that , in this way , we exercise a vast power , for good or for evil ? Men may sometimes scoff at such in- fluences ; but what serious man can fail to see , that the doctrines to which we give our sanction here , must sway and ...
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... doubt , yet still the constant prompting of their better nature , dawned upon some minds , even among those Greeks who by their wisdom knew not God for any effectual pur- pose of salvation . The same persuasion too took root among the ...
... doubt , yet still the constant prompting of their better nature , dawned upon some minds , even among those Greeks who by their wisdom knew not God for any effectual pur- pose of salvation . The same persuasion too took root among the ...
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... doubt that this con- nexion of thought belongs to all men , St Paul bids us remember , that those who had not the law of the Jews , were a law unto themselves . They had the work of the law written in their hearts ; and therefore it was ...
... doubt that this con- nexion of thought belongs to all men , St Paul bids us remember , that those who had not the law of the Jews , were a law unto themselves . They had the work of the law written in their hearts ; and therefore it was ...
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... doubt , and effort and struggle , have all abstract thoughts , however clear , all foundations of general truths , however sure , been extricated by man from the complex mass of events and appearances which surround him . Tardily and ...
... doubt , and effort and struggle , have all abstract thoughts , however clear , all foundations of general truths , however sure , been extricated by man from the complex mass of events and appearances which surround him . Tardily and ...
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Page 62 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 49 - For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Page 61 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 102 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Page 67 - Speak of the worm that never dies, And the fire that is not quenched.
Page 85 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Page 24 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 184 - ... the wisdom of God, and the power of God unto salvation.
Page 161 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 38 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.