Coleridge's Aids to Reflection: With the Author's Last Corrections |
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Aids to Reflection answer APHORISM Apostle argument Arminian assertion Baptism believe Bishop called Calvinistic cause character Christ Christian Church Church of England Coleridge's common conscience consequences convictions death Deist distinction divine doctrine Edward Bickersteth effect essential evil existence express fact faculty faith feel give Gospel grace ground hath heart Holy human idea Infant Baptism instance instinct Irenĉus Jeremy Taylor John Henry Hobart judgment knowledge language lastly least LEIGHTON AND COLERIDGE light living Lord's Supper mankind means metaphorical mind moral mystery nature necessity notion object original original sin outward Paul perfect perfect law philosophy Prayer present principle proof Prothesis prudence purpose question reader reason receive redemption religious scheme Scripture seek sense SERMONS Socinian sophisms soul speak spirit suppose teach things thou thought tion tism true truth uncon understanding virtue words
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Page 5 - ... will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the habit, of reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them.
Page 72 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 161 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Page 244 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 82 - Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale of creation, leaves death behind it or under it. The metal at its height of being seems a mute prophecy of the coming vegetation, into a mimic semblance of which it crystallizes.
Page 197 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 74 - He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 95 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God...
Page 177 - In wonder all philosophy began ; in wonder it ends ; and admiration fills up the interspace. But the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance : the last is the parent of adoration.
Page viii - Christianity is not a theory, or a speculation ; but a life ; — not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.