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... questions of duty , and the intellect ac- cordingly is cultivated . The reason is appealed to in all questions of conduct : the consequences of folly or sin are pointed out , and the punishment which , without any miracle , God ...
... questions of duty , and the intellect ac- cordingly is cultivated . The reason is appealed to in all questions of conduct : the consequences of folly or sin are pointed out , and the punishment which , without any miracle , God ...
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... questions . They content themselves with so much of truth as they find necessary for their spiritual life ; and , though perfectly aware that the wheat may be mixed with tares , they despair of rooting up the tares with safety to the ...
... questions . They content themselves with so much of truth as they find necessary for their spiritual life ; and , though perfectly aware that the wheat may be mixed with tares , they despair of rooting up the tares with safety to the ...
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... question . It rarely seems to occur to the early controversialists that there are questions which even the Church cannot solve problems which not even revelation has brought within the reach of human faculties . That the decisions were ...
... question . It rarely seems to occur to the early controversialists that there are questions which even the Church cannot solve problems which not even revelation has brought within the reach of human faculties . That the decisions were ...
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... question whether it had ever been necessary . The time was come when it was fit to trust to the conscience as the supreme guide , and the yoke of the medieval discipline was shaken off by a controversy which , in many respects , was a ...
... question whether it had ever been necessary . The time was come when it was fit to trust to the conscience as the supreme guide , and the yoke of the medieval discipline was shaken off by a controversy which , in many respects , was a ...
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... question that it is gaining on the minds of all educated men , whether Protestant or Roman Catholic , and is passing from them to be the common property of educated and uneducated alike . There are occasions when the spiritual anarchy ...
... question that it is gaining on the minds of all educated men , whether Protestant or Roman Catholic , and is passing from them to be the common property of educated and uneducated alike . There are occasions when the spiritual anarchy ...
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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.