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... conduct of life and the regulation of our ordinary concerns . The applica- tion of these doctrines to the heart and the life is the business of the professed teachers of Christianity , into whose province I have not felt competent to ...
... conduct of life and the regulation of our ordinary concerns . The applica- tion of these doctrines to the heart and the life is the business of the professed teachers of Christianity , into whose province I have not felt competent to ...
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... conduct according to that belief is another . A cold and passive assent to the doctrines of Christianity is not enough to constitute a religious life ; but no one will maintain that a Chris- tian life is compatible with a denial of ...
... conduct according to that belief is another . A cold and passive assent to the doctrines of Christianity is not enough to constitute a religious life ; but no one will maintain that a Chris- tian life is compatible with a denial of ...
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... conduct ? All other things are of temporary , these are of eternal interest . ― And this duty of examination is one which is perpetually re- newed , as from age to age the nature of the problem shifts , or we encounter new difficulties ...
... conduct ? All other things are of temporary , these are of eternal interest . ― And this duty of examination is one which is perpetually re- newed , as from age to age the nature of the problem shifts , or we encounter new difficulties ...
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... conduct of human beings is governed exclusively by the evidence and the reasoning which are applicable to matters of fact , or , in other words , by experience . It is the only proof they have that food will nourish , fire burn , or ...
... conduct of human beings is governed exclusively by the evidence and the reasoning which are applicable to matters of fact , or , in other words , by experience . It is the only proof they have that food will nourish , fire burn , or ...
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... conduct of men . In vastly the greater number of instances , the light which obser- vation and experience afford for the application of the rule is quite as clear and convincing as the boasted demonstration which supports the abstract ...
... conduct of men . In vastly the greater number of instances , the light which obser- vation and experience afford for the application of the rule is quite as clear and convincing as the boasted demonstration which supports the abstract ...
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Page 24 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 283 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 297 - Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws : they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes...
Page 440 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 377 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 136 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 144 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 422 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Page 441 - Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 137 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.