On Man: His Motives, Their Rise, Operations, Opposition, and Results, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833 - Theological anthropology |
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... spiritual feelings , is differ- ent from , and of a more exalted nature than , what may be called the sensitive soul of a brute guided by instinct The motives productive of action which are connected with instinct are different from ...
... spiritual feelings , is differ- ent from , and of a more exalted nature than , what may be called the sensitive soul of a brute guided by instinct The motives productive of action which are connected with instinct are different from ...
Page xxvii
... spiritual and carnal motives , the eliciting of choice by their com- petition and collision , and the results which hence ensue 377 There is nothing in Mahometanism which can be cited as suggesting to us the competition which prevails ...
... spiritual and carnal motives , the eliciting of choice by their com- petition and collision , and the results which hence ensue 377 There is nothing in Mahometanism which can be cited as suggesting to us the competition which prevails ...
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... spiritual essence , and the other being more appropriate to the sensitive soul of a brute , the existence of which is but temporary , and of a short duration . That this conclusion is founded in truth we may collect from Revelation ...
... spiritual essence , and the other being more appropriate to the sensitive soul of a brute , the existence of which is but temporary , and of a short duration . That this conclusion is founded in truth we may collect from Revelation ...
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... spiritual nature . I shall have occasion , in the subsequent part of this treatise , to advert to the superior and distinguished excellency of what is spiritual , that it is the receptacle in which virtues of every description are ...
... spiritual nature . I shall have occasion , in the subsequent part of this treatise , to advert to the superior and distinguished excellency of what is spiritual , that it is the receptacle in which virtues of every description are ...
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... spiritual and rational agent , to form abstract notions of the properties of visible objects , or of the qualities of actions , or of mixed modes , or of class- ing some as virtuous and others as vitious ; nor does it convey to them any ...
... spiritual and rational agent , to form abstract notions of the properties of visible objects , or of the qualities of actions , or of mixed modes , or of class- ing some as virtuous and others as vitious ; nor does it convey to them any ...
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Page 312 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 353 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 352 - For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man ; but he that built all things is God.
Page 320 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 333 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
Page iii - Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Page 352 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Page 312 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 360 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 353 - For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did ; by the which we draw nigh unto God.