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... Supreme Intelligence , is to suppose an impossibility . How impressive , how awakening , is this thought — all things working together for good ! since it connects the idea of God with every other idea ; and while it supplies us with a ...
... Supreme Intelligence , is to suppose an impossibility . How impressive , how awakening , is this thought — all things working together for good ! since it connects the idea of God with every other idea ; and while it supplies us with a ...
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... Supreme Being , till we love and adore him — and then , to see God in every thing , and every thing in God ! -Not only does the scheme of Providence , in its great outline , and governed by general laws , bear a determinate relation to ...
... Supreme Being , till we love and adore him — and then , to see God in every thing , and every thing in God ! -Not only does the scheme of Providence , in its great outline , and governed by general laws , bear a determinate relation to ...
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... Supreme . It was by the thorn in the flesh that St. Paul was saved from being exalted above measure by the multitude of his revelations . It rebukes our forgetfulness of Him , who , although unseen , is ever present ; and it enforces ...
... Supreme . It was by the thorn in the flesh that St. Paul was saved from being exalted above measure by the multitude of his revelations . It rebukes our forgetfulness of Him , who , although unseen , is ever present ; and it enforces ...
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... not sufficiently in- formed of the nature of our own minds , to know through what variety of processes it is accessible by the supreme and infinite mind , The of which we are still more profoundly igno- rant 54 CONSIDERATIONS APPLICABLE TO.
... not sufficiently in- formed of the nature of our own minds , to know through what variety of processes it is accessible by the supreme and infinite mind , The of which we are still more profoundly igno- rant 54 CONSIDERATIONS APPLICABLE TO.
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... Supreme Intelligence amidst innumerable created minds , who are happy in his favour and graced with his like- ness ; while the scheme of man's redemption , now seen but dimly , as the restorative of the broken order of the universe ...
... Supreme Intelligence amidst innumerable created minds , who are happy in his favour and graced with his like- ness ; while the scheme of man's redemption , now seen but dimly , as the restorative of the broken order of the universe ...
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Page 65 - the sea, in perils among false brethren. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things which are without, that which cometh on me daily, the care of all the Churches!
Page 40 - and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly-kindness ; and to brotherly-kindness, charity. He that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Page 41 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy! When I fall, I shall arise ! When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me !
Page 9 - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him; for He knoweth our frame, He remembereth we are
Page 13 - Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe!
Page 1 - Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known !
Page 41 - was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept Thy word. It was good for me that I
Page 78 - But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh, by the blood of Christ.
Page 15 - under which human life has ever been considered, the most reasonable, in my judgement, is that which regards it as a state of probation. Many things in it suit with this hypothesis, which suit with no other. It is not a state of unmixed happiness, or of happiness simply; —it is not a state of
Page 3 - To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan!— The tender, for another's pain, Th