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are repelled from the investigation of its evidences , because in their minds
Christianity is allied with the weakness of superstition ; and they feel that they are
descending , when they bring down their attention to a subject which engrosses
so ...
are repelled from the investigation of its evidences , because in their minds
Christianity is allied with the weakness of superstition ; and they feel that they are
descending , when they bring down their attention to a subject which engrosses
so ...
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Were it a mere speculative question , in which the interests of man , and the
attachments of his heart , had no share , he would feel greater confidence in the
result of his investigation . But it is difficult to separate the moral impressions of
piety ...
Were it a mere speculative question , in which the interests of man , and the
attachments of his heart , had no share , he would feel greater confidence in the
result of his investigation . But it is difficult to separate the moral impressions of
piety ...
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It is true , " says a worthy and ingenious author , " that a man by internal feeling ,
may prove his own free will , if by free - will ... opposite to mechanism , he ought
to feel that he can do different things , while the motives remain exactly the same .
It is true , " says a worthy and ingenious author , " that a man by internal feeling ,
may prove his own free will , if by free - will ... opposite to mechanism , he ought
to feel that he can do different things , while the motives remain exactly the same .
Page 131
While his mind is in this state , the motives remain precisely the same ; and yet it
is to me inconceivable , that he should at any time , during this space , feel
himself under a necessity of committing , or under a necessity of not committing
the ...
While his mind is in this state , the motives remain precisely the same ; and yet it
is to me inconceivable , that he should at any time , during this space , feel
himself under a necessity of committing , or under a necessity of not committing
the ...
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Could I but tell you the sweetness that I feel ! - never did I feel any thing like this
before . The day is broke ! the day is broke ! Hail him ! hail him ! hail him ! ” — And
repeatedly clapt her dying hands in triumph over the King of Terrors . She then ...
Could I but tell you the sweetness that I feel ! - never did I feel any thing like this
before . The day is broke ! the day is broke ! Hail him ! hail him ! hail him ! ” — And
repeatedly clapt her dying hands in triumph over the King of Terrors . She then ...
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Page 147 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 453 - Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Page 247 - Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world; perfect God and perfect Man; of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; equal to the Father, as touching his godhead and inferior to the Father as touching his manhood.
Page 458 - Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Page 465 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Page 53 - When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Page 391 - Welcome, sweet day of rest, That saw the Lord arise; Welcome to this reviving breast, And these rejoicing eyes! 2 The King himself comes near, And feasts his saints today, Here we may sit, and see him here, And love, and praise, and pray. 3 One day amidst the place Where my dear God hath been, Is sweeter than ten thousand days Of pleasurable sin.
Page 246 - I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible : And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds ; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father...
Page 249 - Thus, we repeat, He admonishes men to return to God ; to reestablish their original likeness to him ; and He, who is " the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person...
Page 247 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance...