The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 19Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1824 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... authority ; -to teach him to distinguish between showy language and sound sense ; -to warn him not to pay himself with words ; -to shew him that what may tickle the ear or dazzle the imagination , will not always inform the judgment ...
... authority ; -to teach him to distinguish between showy language and sound sense ; -to warn him not to pay himself with words ; -to shew him that what may tickle the ear or dazzle the imagination , will not always inform the judgment ...
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... authority alone . I allow it , and let the most be made of the concession . It is not the evidence of a doctrine , but the belief of it which is practically useful . And if the objector would be kind enough to consider how many opinions ...
... authority alone . I allow it , and let the most be made of the concession . It is not the evidence of a doctrine , but the belief of it which is practically useful . And if the objector would be kind enough to consider how many opinions ...
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... authority whatever . Had this division been ju- diciously made , we should have been able in most cases , without any great difficulty , to see the scope and design of each separate prophecy ; but , as it is , it serves only to perplex ...
... authority whatever . Had this division been ju- diciously made , we should have been able in most cases , without any great difficulty , to see the scope and design of each separate prophecy ; but , as it is , it serves only to perplex ...
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... authority . I am , how ever , ready to give a reason of the hope that is in me with meekness and fear ; and I also hold myself subject to instruction and reproof . Even when these may not have been offered in the spirit of love , I have ...
... authority . I am , how ever , ready to give a reason of the hope that is in me with meekness and fear ; and I also hold myself subject to instruction and reproof . Even when these may not have been offered in the spirit of love , I have ...
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... authority of Christ , I pre- tend not to determine ; it is enough for me to be assured that so long as there exists the relation of Creator and creature , that saying will be true , that God does not afflict willingly , and has no ...
... authority of Christ , I pre- tend not to determine ; it is enough for me to be assured that so long as there exists the relation of Creator and creature , that saying will be true , that God does not afflict willingly , and has no ...
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Page 265 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation : 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
Page 584 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Page 279 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Page 279 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Page 399 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 347 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 87 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 278 - Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 36 - But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment : yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself, yet am I not hereby justified ; but He that judgeth me is the Lord.
Page 298 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.