A Series of Discourses on the Christian RevelationJ. Smith and son, 1817 - 275 pages |
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... sense which is now so abundantly convincing by the evidence of analogy . They may lay open to us the unquestionable vestiges of art , and in dustry , and intelligence . We may see summer throwing its green mantle over these mighty ...
... sense which is now so abundantly convincing by the evidence of analogy . They may lay open to us the unquestionable vestiges of art , and in dustry , and intelligence . We may see summer throwing its green mantle over these mighty ...
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... sense of the comparative insignificance of this our world . The first is sug- gested by the consideration , that , if a body be struck in the direction of its centre , it obtains , from this course , a progressive motion , but without ...
... sense of the comparative insignificance of this our world . The first is sug- gested by the consideration , that , if a body be struck in the direction of its centre , it obtains , from this course , a progressive motion , but without ...
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... region of sense from the region of conjecture , they make their blind and their impetuous inroads into a province which does not belong to them . There is no one object to which the exercised mind of a true Newtonian E 3 69.
... region of sense from the region of conjecture , they make their blind and their impetuous inroads into a province which does not belong to them . There is no one object to which the exercised mind of a true Newtonian E 3 69.
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... senses . Sir Isaac Newton never went beyond this field , without a reverential impression upon his mind , of the precariousness of the ground on which he was standing . On this ground , he never ventured a positive affir- mation - but ...
... senses . Sir Isaac Newton never went beyond this field , without a reverential impression upon his mind , of the precariousness of the ground on which he was standing . On this ground , he never ventured a positive affir- mation - but ...
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... sense , and all science , and all sobriety , when he presumes to speculate , or to assert on the details or the methods of God's administration among its rational and account- able inhabitants . He wings his fancy to as hazardous a ...
... sense , and all science , and all sobriety , when he presumes to speculate , or to assert on the details or the methods of God's administration among its rational and account- able inhabitants . He wings his fancy to as hazardous a ...
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Page 270 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 265 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 264 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 271 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Page 274 - Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 256 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 270 - I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Page 266 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness : but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night...
Page 258 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Page 150 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.