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... practice . And as this last admits a subdivision ( for there may be practical ends of very different sorts ) the method best adapted to one sort may not be the best adapted to another . I explain myself by an example , which comes ...
... practice . And as this last admits a subdivision ( for there may be practical ends of very different sorts ) the method best adapted to one sort may not be the best adapted to another . I explain myself by an example , which comes ...
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... practice of the duties of Christian life , every minister of a parish is thus far a professor of divinity , and every parishioner is , or ought to be , thus far a student . It is , I may say , solely for the third purpose , the most ...
... practice of the duties of Christian life , every minister of a parish is thus far a professor of divinity , and every parishioner is , or ought to be , thus far a student . It is , I may say , solely for the third purpose , the most ...
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... stead of the direction of a heavenly luminary ? You cannot say , he may arrive at this knowledge from scripture , for by the hypothesis , which is indeed conformable to the general practice almost every CAMPBELL'S LECTURES . 333.
... stead of the direction of a heavenly luminary ? You cannot say , he may arrive at this knowledge from scripture , for by the hypothesis , which is indeed conformable to the general practice almost every CAMPBELL'S LECTURES . 333.
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... practice ? Have not several , whom in charity we are bound to think both knowing and pious , maintained in many instances opposite opin- ions , each extremely positive as to his own , and extremely zealous in defence of it ? And as to ...
... practice ? Have not several , whom in charity we are bound to think both knowing and pious , maintained in many instances opposite opin- ions , each extremely positive as to his own , and extremely zealous in defence of it ? And as to ...
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... practice , you will improve very sensibly , and find the task at last grow very easy . The portion of the Old Testament which you first read in Hebrew , I would have you next carefully peruse in Greek in the septuagint translation ...
... practice , you will improve very sensibly , and find the task at last grow very easy . The portion of the Old Testament which you first read in Hebrew , I would have you next carefully peruse in Greek in the septuagint translation ...
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Page 147 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 114 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 59 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Page 86 - 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 154 - The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye : return, come.
Page 70 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art.
Page 56 - Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2.
Page 55 - And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Page 23 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 41 - True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.