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... taken with it hereafter ; while the relations of the Creator with his creatures are confined to special and invisible proc- esses by which individual souls are saved from perdition . Acknowledgments of this kind are no more than a tacit ...
... taken with it hereafter ; while the relations of the Creator with his creatures are confined to special and invisible proc- esses by which individual souls are saved from perdition . Acknowledgments of this kind are no more than a tacit ...
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... to them . They sung no pæans of liberty . They were deliv- ered from the house of bondage , but it was the bondage of mendacity , and they left it only to assume another service . - - The Eternal had taken pity on them . Calvinism . 27.
... to them . They sung no pæans of liberty . They were deliv- ered from the house of bondage , but it was the bondage of mendacity , and they left it only to assume another service . - - The Eternal had taken pity on them . Calvinism . 27.
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James Anthony Froude. - - The Eternal had taken pity on them . In revealing his true nature to them , He had taken them for his children . They were not their own , but his , and they laid their lives under commandments which were as ...
James Anthony Froude. - - The Eternal had taken pity on them . In revealing his true nature to them , He had taken them for his children . They were not their own , but his , and they laid their lives under commandments which were as ...
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... taken away , and freedom and manliness come back again . Whence the disobedience had first risen was a problem which St. Paul solved in a manner not all unlike the Per- sians . There was a rebellious spirit in the universe , pene ...
... taken away , and freedom and manliness come back again . Whence the disobedience had first risen was a problem which St. Paul solved in a manner not all unlike the Per- sians . There was a rebellious spirit in the universe , pene ...
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... taken hold of their imagi- nation and the understanding . Kings , when their day of toil was over , laid down crown and sword , and retired into cloisters , to pass what remained of life to them in prayers and meditations on eternity ...
... taken hold of their imagi- nation and the understanding . Kings , when their day of toil was over , laid down crown and sword , and retired into cloisters , to pass what remained of life to them in prayers and meditations on eternity ...
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Page 23 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 110 - ... no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.
Page 363 - Whoever travels this country, and observes the face of nature, or the faces and habits and dwellings of the natives, will hardly think himself in a land, where law, religion, or common humanity is professed.
Page 24 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Agr: O, rare for Antony! Eno: Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 95 - If, as is the case, we feel responsibility, are ashamed, are frightened, at transgressing the voice of conscience, this implies that there is One to whom we are responsible, before whom we are ashamed, whose claims upon us we fear.
Page 109 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature.
Page 96 - The wicked flees, when no one pursueth;" then why does he flee? whence his terror? who is it that he sees in solitude, in darkness, in the hidden chambers of his heart? If the cause of these emotions does not belong to this visible world, the Object to which his perception is directed must be Supernatural and Divine; and thus the phenomena of Conscience, as a dictate, avail to impress the imagination with the picture of a Supreme Governor, a Judge, holy, just, powerful, all-seeing, retributive, and...
Page 31 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats...
Page 456 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.