Recent Inquiries in Theology: By Eminent English Churchmen : Being "Essays and Reviews"Frederic Henry Hedge |
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... truth of Christianity . Nor did the decline of faith stop here . The very being o God was no longer a self - evident truth , but a question of logic I've of entext . which 16 GAS POV Sena red of the ohn F 1 TO THE READER . Ir will ...
... truth of Christianity . Nor did the decline of faith stop here . The very being o God was no longer a self - evident truth , but a question of logic I've of entext . which 16 GAS POV Sena red of the ohn F 1 TO THE READER . Ir will ...
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... truth from a free handling , in a becoming spirit , of subjects peculiarly liable to suffer by the repetition of conventional language , and from traditional methods of treatment . CONTENTS . PAGE . AMERICAN EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION THE ...
... truth from a free handling , in a becoming spirit , of subjects peculiarly liable to suffer by the repetition of conventional language , and from traditional methods of treatment . CONTENTS . PAGE . AMERICAN EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION THE ...
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... truth of God , was advocated on the ground of certain facts , which , if true , would prove God to be its Author ... truth of Christianity . Nor did the decline of faith stop here . The very being of God was no longer a self - evident ...
... truth of God , was advocated on the ground of certain facts , which , if true , would prove God to be its Author ... truth of Christianity . Nor did the decline of faith stop here . The very being of God was no longer a self - evident ...
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... truth , not as the measure and gauge of truth . Rationalistic it is , inasmuch as it is Protestant ; for , of Rationalism , the only alternative is Romanism . Yet assum- ing in Christianity itself the perfection of reason , and ...
... truth , not as the measure and gauge of truth . Rationalistic it is , inasmuch as it is Protestant ; for , of Rationalism , the only alternative is Romanism . Yet assum- ing in Christianity itself the perfection of reason , and ...
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... truth and justice . There are but two sins against the ceremonial law which receive marked attention , - idolatry and sabbath - breaking ; and these do not occupy a third of the space devoted to the denunciation of cruelty and ...
... truth and justice . There are but two sins against the ceremonial law which receive marked attention , - idolatry and sabbath - breaking ; and these do not occupy a third of the space devoted to the denunciation of cruelty and ...
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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...