| Alfred Jones - Sermons, English - 1868 - 272 pages
...blindly prostrated themselves before and worshipped stocks and stones, and " changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things." (Rom. i. 23.) However, we may say this, that the posterity of Noah soon... | |
| 1868 - 986 pages
...can a reasonable man in the present day declare his adhesion ? The nations " changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things." They worshipped calves and crocodiles, cats arid onions ! And the philosophers,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 pages
...further insist. CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM. As the heathen, in their alienation from God, changed His glory into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, the Christian, in his approach to God, is to undo this work, and to change the corruptible... | |
| George Everard - Christian life - 1868 - 352 pages
...blinded men's eyes that they see nothing aright. In far off lands men have changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man and to four-footed beasts. The Great Spirit that is dimly seen is not a God of love but one whom the worshipper... | |
| African Americans - 1869 - 398 pages
...East; their belief, brought with them, in the most abominable idolatry, " changing the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things," Rom. i, 23; the ease with which, in the prolific regions to which they... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 pages
...further insist. CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM. As the heathen, in their alienation from God, changed His glory into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, the Christian, in his approach to God, is to undo this work, and to change the corruptible... | |
| Joseph Hassell - 1872 - 600 pages
...darkened. Professing themselves to be wise they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." The deities to which the general name of Fetish has been given are identified... | |
| Chalmers Izett Paton - Freemasonry - 1873 - 560 pages
...their knowledge, and professing themselves to be wise have become fools, " and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things " (Rom. i. 23). In some measure, certainly, conscience has always borne... | |
| Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1873 - 672 pages
...darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God, into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their... | |
| Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - Christian saints - 1886 - 258 pages
...also, that they had " changed the glory of Thy incorruptible nature " into idols and divers images, " into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts, and creeping things" (Rom. i. 23) ; namely into that Egyptian food, for which Esau lost his... | |
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