The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas. Vol. 1-50; 51, no. 3- ol. 63, Volume 2David Thomas |
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... nature - was the beginning and the end , and that truth , knowledge , and insight , were comprehended in its expansion . This was the true and first apostacy , when , in council and synod , the divine humanities of the gospel gave way ...
... nature - was the beginning and the end , and that truth , knowledge , and insight , were comprehended in its expansion . This was the true and first apostacy , when , in council and synod , the divine humanities of the gospel gave way ...
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... natural one . All thoughtful men have asked it a thousand times . It rises amongst the first inquiries of opening ... nature with his soul struggling with the question . " As new waked from soundest sleep , Soft on the flowery herb I ...
... natural one . All thoughtful men have asked it a thousand times . It rises amongst the first inquiries of opening ... nature with his soul struggling with the question . " As new waked from soundest sleep , Soft on the flowery herb I ...
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... nature . All anti - theists are eternalists ; they all believe in a some- thing that has existed from eternity . All seem to feel the truth of the maxim , " Ex nihilo nihil fit . " Indeed , mind is so constituted that it must bow to ...
... nature . All anti - theists are eternalists ; they all believe in a some- thing that has existed from eternity . All seem to feel the truth of the maxim , " Ex nihilo nihil fit . " Indeed , mind is so constituted that it must bow to ...
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... nature . I know of no vagary , in the whole history of mental absurdity , equal to that which refers the complicated , orderly , and stupendous mechanism of nature to chance . I am travelling through the streets of a great city where ...
... nature . I know of no vagary , in the whole history of mental absurdity , equal to that which refers the complicated , orderly , and stupendous mechanism of nature to chance . I am travelling through the streets of a great city where ...
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... NATURE of the moderns . Both are an inanimate , unintelligent , undefinable , infinite , something in matter , the producer of all things . In order to see their correspondence , and , at the same time , the sublime folly of the men who ...
... NATURE of the moderns . Both are an inanimate , unintelligent , undefinable , infinite , something in matter , the producer of all things . In order to see their correspondence , and , at the same time , the sublime folly of the men who ...
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Page 36 - Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee, Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 206 - From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Page 30 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Page 331 - Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there ; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Page 381 - Every man's work shall be made manifest. For the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire ; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Page 253 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 336 - The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Page 231 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste And natural in gesture...
Page 206 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Page 332 - Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.