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... truths asserted in any proposition , and a truth already believed . The act called Memory is a conception attended with one specific act of Judgment , by which a present state of mind is compared with a past , and the relation of ...
... truths asserted in any proposition , and a truth already believed . The act called Memory is a conception attended with one specific act of Judgment , by which a present state of mind is compared with a past , and the relation of ...
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... truth which is believed , or has been established by evidence , and thus discovering the agreement or disagreement . Thus the truth JUDGMENT . 53.
... truth which is believed , or has been established by evidence , and thus discovering the agreement or disagreement . Thus the truth JUDGMENT . 53.
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... truth which every mind believes . Whenever , therefore , any event has been repeatedly an object of past experience , it is compared with this truth already believed , and found to be included under it , and therefore entitled to the ...
... truth which every mind believes . Whenever , therefore , any event has been repeatedly an object of past experience , it is compared with this truth already believed , and found to be included under it , and therefore entitled to the ...
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... as to influence the feelings and the conduct , and some- times it is so imperfect and feeble , as to have very little influence upon either . Truth , may be defined as the " reality of INTUITIVE BELIEF . 91 CHAPTER XII Intuitive Belief, •
... as to influence the feelings and the conduct , and some- times it is so imperfect and feeble , as to have very little influence upon either . Truth , may be defined as the " reality of INTUITIVE BELIEF . 91 CHAPTER XII Intuitive Belief, •
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... truth , or intuitive evidence . Ra- tional belief , is that which is consequent on some act of rea- soning . Intuitive truths are sometimes called primary truths , be cause they are some of the first which are believed by the mind ...
... truth , or intuitive evidence . Ra- tional belief , is that which is consequent on some act of rea- soning . Intuitive truths are sometimes called primary truths , be cause they are some of the first which are believed by the mind ...
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Page 308 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Page 373 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 353 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in 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.
Page 306 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 352 - Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Page 376 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Page 306 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 303 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 222 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 293 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.