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... faith does not involve . --- Such a defect must , of course , be fatal to any religious system . We would not have that for our religion , which , false to its highest purposes , allows us only a few fleeting years of the happiness of ...
... faith does not involve . --- Such a defect must , of course , be fatal to any religious system . We would not have that for our religion , which , false to its highest purposes , allows us only a few fleeting years of the happiness of ...
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... faith do all which religion could do 0 ; and even when we expected to hear the complex creed , to which such vaunted importance was attached through life , appealed to with triumphant confidence , though it was not formally renounced ...
... faith do all which religion could do 0 ; and even when we expected to hear the complex creed , to which such vaunted importance was attached through life , appealed to with triumphant confidence , though it was not formally renounced ...
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... faith in which they were edu- cated ; the faith of their fathers and of their childhood , endeared to them for so long a time by thousands of the tenderest associations . This faith they have taken the bold and momentous step of ...
... faith in which they were edu- cated ; the faith of their fathers and of their childhood , endeared to them for so long a time by thousands of the tenderest associations . This faith they have taken the bold and momentous step of ...
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... faith which our parents taught us , appeals then to our tenderest feelings and most deep- founded prejudices . Our reason has been entirely con- vinced of its falsehood ; but dotage and a death - bed are not the time and place for ...
... faith which our parents taught us , appeals then to our tenderest feelings and most deep- founded prejudices . Our reason has been entirely con- vinced of its falsehood ; but dotage and a death - bed are not the time and place for ...
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... faith in God . But now they , who were once so far from heavenly things , were brought into close union with them by the ministry of divine wisdom in Christ , whose blood on the cross had sealed his word of salvation . From such a ...
... faith in God . But now they , who were once so far from heavenly things , were brought into close union with them by the ministry of divine wisdom in Christ , whose blood on the cross had sealed his word of salvation . From such a ...
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Page 63 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Page 2 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 32 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...
Page 9 - For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Page 28 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 7 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 4 - Christian should turn his attention if he would be able ' to give a reason for the hope that is in him.
Page 14 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 44 - And when he came to himself, he said. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare ; and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 12 - The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, (whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures,) to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.