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... to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world , and the seed - plot of all other virtues . " ( Locke , æt . 73 , Letter to Collins . ) Spalding has de- scribed the moral shock his faith received ...
... to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world , and the seed - plot of all other virtues . " ( Locke , æt . 73 , Letter to Collins . ) Spalding has de- scribed the moral shock his faith received ...
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Page 272 - And GOD said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat; and it was so.
Page 485 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Page 380 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 229 - God is not in the earthquake nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice.
Page 485 - I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Page 197 - 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 253 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 486 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 255 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: & God divided the light from the darkness.
Page 459 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world 'standeth3 lest I make my brother to offend.