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... influence of that attraction , which will bury her in the whirlpool . We are to avoid the danger , ra- ther than to oppose it . This is a great doc- trine of Scripture . An active force against the world is not so much inculcated , as a ...
... influence of that attraction , which will bury her in the whirlpool . We are to avoid the danger , ra- ther than to oppose it . This is a great doc- trine of Scripture . An active force against the world is not so much inculcated , as a ...
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... influence of their vortex can see them ; yet every man's own breast has an in- fallible , dogmatizing , excommunicating , and anathematizing spirit working within . Acting from the occasion , without reflec- tion and inquiry , is the ...
... influence of their vortex can see them ; yet every man's own breast has an in- fallible , dogmatizing , excommunicating , and anathematizing spirit working within . Acting from the occasion , without reflec- tion and inquiry , is the ...
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... . A nan goes on pretty well till he ventures within the atmosphere of danger ; but the atmosphere of danger infatuates him . The ship is got within the influence of the vortex , and will not obey the helm . David 16 REMAINS .
... . A nan goes on pretty well till he ventures within the atmosphere of danger ; but the atmosphere of danger infatuates him . The ship is got within the influence of the vortex , and will not obey the helm . David 16 REMAINS .
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... influence on mankind ; but they would supply what God has left untold . They would explain the fitness and propriety of things . A mathematician may summon his scholars round his chair , and from self - evident princi- ples deduce and ...
... influence on mankind ; but they would supply what God has left untold . They would explain the fitness and propriety of things . A mathematician may summon his scholars round his chair , and from self - evident princi- ples deduce and ...
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... influenced , are not formed by chance and at random . They are attracted toward the system of his affairs or repelled from them , by the Highest Power . We talk of attraction in the Universe ; but there is no such thing , as we are ...
... influenced , are not formed by chance and at random . They are attracted toward the system of his affairs or repelled from them , by the Highest Power . We talk of attraction in the Universe ; but there is no such thing , as we are ...
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Page 73 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 160 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 247 - And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Page 98 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 271 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Page 178 - For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Page 274 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest : and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words...
Page 33 - Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear to all.