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... moral worth , imbued with an ardent love of biblical science , or eminently conversant with theological and ecclesi- astical literature , who , from various causes , might never have attracted that degree of public attention to which ...
... moral worth , imbued with an ardent love of biblical science , or eminently conversant with theological and ecclesi- astical literature , who , from various causes , might never have attracted that degree of public attention to which ...
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... the comforts of life . Moral uses . Responsibility to the just and holy GOD . Interest and urgency of these considerations . The rational claims and attractions of religion . SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES . A , referred to at pages 12.
... the comforts of life . Moral uses . Responsibility to the just and holy GOD . Interest and urgency of these considerations . The rational claims and attractions of religion . SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES . A , referred to at pages 12.
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... moral discipline ) from the vanity and pedantry of half- knowledge , we are enabled to apprehend with accuracy what we do learn , and we gain safe positions from which , when the opportunity may occur , we can make further advances . 4 ...
... moral discipline ) from the vanity and pedantry of half- knowledge , we are enabled to apprehend with accuracy what we do learn , and we gain safe positions from which , when the opportunity may occur , we can make further advances . 4 ...
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... moral turpitude , to gross ignorance , or to interested motives in the supporters of it ; but he cer- tainly would not commit the impiety of supposing the Deity to have wrought a miraculous change upon the senses of our whole species ...
... moral turpitude , to gross ignorance , or to interested motives in the supporters of it ; but he cer- tainly would not commit the impiety of supposing the Deity to have wrought a miraculous change upon the senses of our whole species ...
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... moral injury to others , perhaps his own children , by making it an article of religion to maintain that all ... morality , rests upon Theology . And what is theology , but the knowledge of that which is in itself true and in its ...
... moral injury to others , perhaps his own children , by making it an article of religion to maintain that all ... morality , rests upon Theology . And what is theology , but the knowledge of that which is in itself true and in its ...
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Page 274 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured ; coals were kindled by it.
Page 411 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 304 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 258 - Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Page 255 - Is Ephraim my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still : therefore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Page 305 - Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
Page 104 - And the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains, of Ararat.
Page 255 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 306 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Page 324 - I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things...