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... less often can we form a just estimate of the current morals of their countrymen , so as to discri- minate what in their teaching was common to their contemporaries , from what was peculiar to them- selves . Half - shadowy prophets like ...
... less often can we form a just estimate of the current morals of their countrymen , so as to discri- minate what in their teaching was common to their contemporaries , from what was peculiar to them- selves . Half - shadowy prophets like ...
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... less stringent and rigorous ? clergyman of the English Church striving once to induce his semi - Methodist parishioners to attend evening service in church instead of at prayer - meetings , received the astounding replies , " Why , sir ...
... less stringent and rigorous ? clergyman of the English Church striving once to induce his semi - Methodist parishioners to attend evening service in church instead of at prayer - meetings , received the astounding replies , " Why , sir ...
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... less to the primitive Mosaic law ; but whenever these observances are mentioned by Christ , it is invariably in a depre- ciatory and never in a laudatory manner . Washing the hands before meat , making clean the cup and . platter ...
... less to the primitive Mosaic law ; but whenever these observances are mentioned by Christ , it is invariably in a depre- ciatory and never in a laudatory manner . Washing the hands before meat , making clean the cup and . platter ...
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... less than in the Temple . Thus it would seem that , without actually setting them at naught , he could hardly have shown less reverence for the ordinances of the established church . If he had thought of them as things in themselves ...
... less than in the Temple . Thus it would seem that , without actually setting them at naught , he could hardly have shown less reverence for the ordinances of the established church . If he had thought of them as things in themselves ...
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... less , if we might paraphrase his view of the subject , it would amount to this : " The Levitical law was good in its place , and has had its use in building up the Jewish nationality . I am not come to de- stroy the law , but to fulfil ...
... less , if we might paraphrase his view of the subject , it would amount to this : " The Levitical law was good in its place , and has had its use in building up the Jewish nationality . I am not come to de- stroy the law , but to fulfil ...
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Page 383 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 427 - Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Page 433 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 255 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 308 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Page 433 - For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Page 12 - All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets : Matt, vii, 12.
Page 421 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Page 29 - Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, is in danger of the judgment ; and he who calls opprobrious names, of the council and of hell-fire.
Page 94 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee Aud sophists, madly vain of dubious lore...