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... religion - has thus been suffici- ently established . 66 1. — Let me now urge you , dear brethren , to apply it as a test to your own characters . Anticipate the inquiry which you must undergo before the tribunal of spotless and ...
... religion - has thus been suffici- ently established . 66 1. — Let me now urge you , dear brethren , to apply it as a test to your own characters . Anticipate the inquiry which you must undergo before the tribunal of spotless and ...
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... religion Analyse any one of these tribes , and you will find in each a very considerable diversity of mind . The volatility of some will fly off from the involutions of an argument ; the incredulity of others will yield only to well ...
... religion Analyse any one of these tribes , and you will find in each a very considerable diversity of mind . The volatility of some will fly off from the involutions of an argument ; the incredulity of others will yield only to well ...
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... religion for the lettered and another for the vulgar - one for patrician and the other for plebeian devotion . This was the case in Greece , and to a large extent in Rome . Many of the philosophers among them gave small heed to the ...
... religion for the lettered and another for the vulgar - one for patrician and the other for plebeian devotion . This was the case in Greece , and to a large extent in Rome . Many of the philosophers among them gave small heed to the ...
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... religion to enjoy the world , and far too little to be happy in the church , and you are not happy ; you know you are not happy . You have tried philosophy and pleasure , and taste and science , and even scepticism , and they are ...
... religion to enjoy the world , and far too little to be happy in the church , and you are not happy ; you know you are not happy . You have tried philosophy and pleasure , and taste and science , and even scepticism , and they are ...
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... religion were removed man would soon be the cause of his own extinction . Instead of loving the religion that saves us we naturally hate it . There are in the human heart such destructive and antagonistic elements of evil as would never ...
... religion were removed man would soon be the cause of his own extinction . Instead of loving the religion that saves us we naturally hate it . There are in the human heart such destructive and antagonistic elements of evil as would never ...
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Page 204 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face ; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 276 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill ; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment : But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment...
Page 88 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 338 - I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 63 - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Page 51 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 262 - But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, "It is not in me:" and the sea saith,