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We believe that Christianity not only addresses to the mind of her disciples objects which were before unknown , but quickens and enlightens them in the sense of what is right and wrong - making their moral discernment more clear ...
We believe that Christianity not only addresses to the mind of her disciples objects which were before unknown , but quickens and enlightens them in the sense of what is right and wrong - making their moral discernment more clear ...
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The single difference is , that one object is withdrawn , that God henceforth is unheeded and unknown , that he is never present to the eye of the mind so as to call forth from the heart a sense of corresponding duteousness .
The single difference is , that one object is withdrawn , that God henceforth is unheeded and unknown , that he is never present to the eye of the mind so as to call forth from the heart a sense of corresponding duteousness .
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All the mental exercises of Paley lie within the limits of sense and of experience - nor would one ever think of awarding to him the meed of genius . Yet in the whole staple and substance of his thoughts there was something better than ...
All the mental exercises of Paley lie within the limits of sense and of experience - nor would one ever think of awarding to him the meed of genius . Yet in the whole staple and substance of his thoughts there was something better than ...
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Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
on the side of Theism | 121 |
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| Title | The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1 The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Thomas Chalmers |
| Author | Thomas Chalmers |
| Publisher | W. Collins, 1836 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2019 |
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