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... object is now as evident as the object of the ancient Mosaic system . Nothing short of a real system of discipline , accepted as divine by all alike , could have tamed the German and Celtish nature into the self - control needed for a ...
... object is now as evident as the object of the ancient Mosaic system . Nothing short of a real system of discipline , accepted as divine by all alike , could have tamed the German and Celtish nature into the self - control needed for a ...
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... object , from time to time , to review the con- dition in which the discussion stands , and to comment on the peculiar features which at any particular epoch it most pro- minently presents , as indicative of strength or weakness of the ...
... object , from time to time , to review the con- dition in which the discussion stands , and to comment on the peculiar features which at any particular epoch it most pro- minently presents , as indicative of strength or weakness of the ...
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... object of the present Essay . Before proceeding to the main question we may , however , properly premise a brief reflection on the spirit and temper in which it should be discussed . In writings on these subjects it must be confessed we ...
... object of the present Essay . Before proceeding to the main question we may , however , properly premise a brief reflection on the spirit and temper in which it should be discussed . In writings on these subjects it must be confessed we ...
Page 86
... objects considered , the distinction is manifest and undeniable ; when a reference is made to matters of external fact ( insisted on as such ) it is obvious that reason and intellect can alone be the proper judges of the evidence of ...
... objects considered , the distinction is manifest and undeniable ; when a reference is made to matters of external fact ( insisted on as such ) it is obvious that reason and intellect can alone be the proper judges of the evidence of ...
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... object of addressing the moral and religious feelings and affections , which causes so many writers on these subjects to betray an inconsistency between their professed purpose and their mode of carrying it out . They avow matter - of ...
... object of addressing the moral and religious feelings and affections , which causes so many writers on these subjects to betray an inconsistency between their professed purpose and their mode of carrying it out . They avow matter - of ...
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Page 295 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 323 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years...
Page 158 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 213 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it...
Page 201 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 304 - Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement, but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 306 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 254 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
Page 350 - Ghost, and taste of the good Word of God, and of the powers of the life to come, and yet have no part in Christ at all.