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... prove this willingness by the actual forsaking of everything . To be a Christian then , was to put one's self in ... proved its power by showing what it was capable of helping men to endure . " The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the ...
... prove this willingness by the actual forsaking of everything . To be a Christian then , was to put one's self in ... proved its power by showing what it was capable of helping men to endure . " The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the ...
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... proved by those which it has already actually undergone . Since the Saviour's time , it has been subjected to one transformation at any rate so thorough and complete that a superficial observer might fancy it had been altogether ...
... proved by those which it has already actually undergone . Since the Saviour's time , it has been subjected to one transformation at any rate so thorough and complete that a superficial observer might fancy it had been altogether ...
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... participation , since it has proved itself legiti- mately practicable , is manifestly an advance upon the isolation of the early Church . It It would not surely be for the good of the 46 Defects of Modern Christianity .
... participation , since it has proved itself legiti- mately practicable , is manifestly an advance upon the isolation of the early Church . It It would not surely be for the good of the 46 Defects of Modern Christianity .
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... proved by argumen- tation . It can be seen only in Himself . That is a beautiful idea , and a true one , which Dr Abbott puts into the mouth of Philochristus , the imaginary disciple whose autobiography he is writing : " It seemed not ...
... proved by argumen- tation . It can be seen only in Himself . That is a beautiful idea , and a true one , which Dr Abbott puts into the mouth of Philochristus , the imaginary disciple whose autobiography he is writing : " It seemed not ...
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... prove the power of an unselfish love for God . " Hast thou con- sidered my servant Job , " says Jehovah to Satan , " that there is none like him in the earth , a perfect and an upright man , one that feareth God , and escheweth evil ...
... prove the power of an unselfish love for God . " Hast thou con- sidered my servant Job , " says Jehovah to Satan , " that there is none like him in the earth , a perfect and an upright man , one that feareth God , and escheweth evil ...
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Page 19 - TULLOCH. Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century. By JOHN TULLOCH, DD, Principal of St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews ; and one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland. Second Edition. 2 vols.
Page 192 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 31 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Page 341 - Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Page 258 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 238 - It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold : "Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, From heaven's all-gracious King!
Page 5 - FERRIER. Philosophical Works of the late James F. Ferrier, BA Oxon. , Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy, St Andrews. New Edition. Edited by Sir ALEX. GRANT, Bart., DCL, and Professor LUSHINGTON.
Page 3 - Curate of Lambeth Parish Church. With an Introduction by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Second Edition, containing an additional Chapter on Medieval Life in the Old Palaces. 8vo, with Illustrations, 21s. CHARTERIS. Canonicity ; or, Early Testimonies to the Existence and Use of the Books of the New Testament. Based on Kirchhoffer's
Page 282 - ... the highest human morality which we are capable of conceiving" does not sanction them ; convince me of it, and I will bear my fate as I may. But when I am told that I must believe this, and at the same time call this being by the names which express and affirm the highest human morality, I say in plain terms that I will not. Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what...
Page 17 - SPROTT. The Worship and Offices of the Church of Scotland ; or, the Celebration of Public Worship, the Administration of the Sacraments, and other Divine Offices, according to the Order of the Church of Scotland.