Recent Inquiries in Theology: By Eminent English Churchmen : Being "Essays and Reviews"Frederic Henry Hedge |
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... religion , philosophy , and cosmogony , are not to be settled by the literal sense of the Apocalypse or the Book of ... Religious Magazine . - " It is a most significant fruit of modern scholarship and of robust courage given to the ...
... religion , philosophy , and cosmogony , are not to be settled by the literal sense of the Apocalypse or the Book of ... Religious Magazine . - " It is a most significant fruit of modern scholarship and of robust courage given to the ...
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... religious philosophy of unbelief reached its climax in Paley , exhibiting in him the strange phenomenon of a right - minded , Christian man , a preacher of the gospel , endeavoring to rear a system of ethics on a virtual negation of the ...
... religious philosophy of unbelief reached its climax in Paley , exhibiting in him the strange phenomenon of a right - minded , Christian man , a preacher of the gospel , endeavoring to rear a system of ethics on a virtual negation of the ...
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... religion of the human race , would have been the religion of the He- brews only . The other systems would have been too ... religious man more instinctively remembers . The Sermon on the Mount , the Parables and the Miracles , the Last ...
... religion of the human race , would have been the religion of the He- brews only . The other systems would have been too ... religious man more instinctively remembers . The Sermon on the Mount , the Parables and the Miracles , the Last ...
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... religious life , the singleness of heart , the openness , the child- like earnestness . All else has been repeated since ; but this , never . And this makes the religious man's heart turn back with longing to that blessed time when the ...
... religious life , the singleness of heart , the openness , the child- like earnestness . All else has been repeated since ; but this , never . And this makes the religious man's heart turn back with longing to that blessed time when the ...
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... religion for precise definitions of truth . This lesson is certainly not yet fully learnt . Our toleration is at present too often timid , too often rash , sometimes sacrificing valuable religious ele- ments , sometimes fearing its own ...
... religion for precise definitions of truth . This lesson is certainly not yet fully learnt . Our toleration is at present too often timid , too often rash , sometimes sacrificing valuable religious ele- ments , sometimes fearing its own ...
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Page 356 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 396 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years...
Page 187 - 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 320 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat it as if in the present age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 373 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 245 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 310 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
Page 374 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 82 - Why may not justification by faith have meant the peace of mind, or sense of Divine approval, which comes of trust in a righteous God, rather than a fiction of merit by transfer?
Page 257 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...