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... Creator has permitted us to contemplate , are intended to throw light on the plan of his moral government in relation both to our pre- sent and our future destiny . He has carefully avoided every thing that might appear like vague or ...
... Creator has permitted us to contemplate , are intended to throw light on the plan of his moral government in relation both to our pre- sent and our future destiny . He has carefully avoided every thing that might appear like vague or ...
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... Creator has laid the foundation of these sciences in his works , 147 . Astronomy , its objects - presents an immense field of contem- plation , 150 . Natural Philosophy , —its objects and discoveries , 156 Anatomy and Physiology , their ...
... Creator has laid the foundation of these sciences in his works , 147 . Astronomy , its objects - presents an immense field of contem- plation , 150 . Natural Philosophy , —its objects and discoveries , 156 Anatomy and Physiology , their ...
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... Creator a capricious being , and his plans and arrangements an inextricable maze . There is too much reason to believe , that the indifference to religion , which so generally prevails , especially among those who are raised a little ...
... Creator a capricious being , and his plans and arrangements an inextricable maze . There is too much reason to believe , that the indifference to religion , which so generally prevails , especially among those who are raised a little ...
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... Creator , we do violence to the law of our nature , when we disregard its intimations , or attempt to resist the force of its evidence . If it ought to be considered as ori- ginally derived from Revelation , then it is corroborative of ...
... Creator , we do violence to the law of our nature , when we disregard its intimations , or attempt to resist the force of its evidence . If it ought to be considered as ori- ginally derived from Revelation , then it is corroborative of ...
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... Creator ; -and , therefore , we must suppose , either that the desire of immor- tality will be gratified , or that the Creator takes delight in tantalizing his creatures with hopes and expectations which will end in eternal ...
... Creator ; -and , therefore , we must suppose , either that the desire of immor- tality will be gratified , or that the Creator takes delight in tantalizing his creatures with hopes and expectations which will end in eternal ...
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Page 111 - Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Page 135 - The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
Page 113 - So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just : 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 228 - Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 23 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 84 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Page 26 - the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ;" neither the mind with any degree of knowledge which can be conveyed into it.
Page 228 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 114 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 111 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.