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... moral condition as it found it , that all are now preparing their future destiny , he thought , with the old divine , that " sermons about hell keep many people out of hell . " His preaching 8 MEMOIR OF THE LATE BEV . EDWARD BRICE .
... moral condition as it found it , that all are now preparing their future destiny , he thought , with the old divine , that " sermons about hell keep many people out of hell . " His preaching 8 MEMOIR OF THE LATE BEV . EDWARD BRICE .
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... moral and mental truth ; we will study physics . ' I , for one , if you could persuade me that the Bible is such a farrago , would not lose time in reading it . I would remain true to chemistry and mathematics , and when I wanted a ...
... moral and mental truth ; we will study physics . ' I , for one , if you could persuade me that the Bible is such a farrago , would not lose time in reading it . I would remain true to chemistry and mathematics , and when I wanted a ...
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... moral strength . Theology must either answer at once to the preten sions of the new science , or else give place to them . " Religion will soon cease to be a thing of one Book , or of any book . It will no longer be considered as the ...
... moral strength . Theology must either answer at once to the preten sions of the new science , or else give place to them . " Religion will soon cease to be a thing of one Book , or of any book . It will no longer be considered as the ...
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... moral character . Courtesy to others and self- respect were virtues " conspicuous only by their absence , " in the majority of them . In their eagerness to injure an opponent , would - be wits resorted to methods which the most bitter ...
... moral character . Courtesy to others and self- respect were virtues " conspicuous only by their absence , " in the majority of them . In their eagerness to injure an opponent , would - be wits resorted to methods which the most bitter ...
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... morality . It is likely that they would listen to the Gospel narrative as a mythological story , which would perhaps interest them a little with- out making any impression on their moral or intellectual nature . The Chinese have , as is ...
... morality . It is likely that they would listen to the Gospel narrative as a mythological story , which would perhaps interest them a little with- out making any impression on their moral or intellectual nature . The Chinese have , as is ...
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Page 713 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his Church; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ;...
Page 578 - And, beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience ; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 713 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 587 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 321 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Page 584 - Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way, thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
Page 416 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Page 418 - So once it would have been, — 'tis so no more ; I have submitted to a new control : A power is gone, which nothing can restore ; A deep distress hath humanised my Soul.
Page 582 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 333 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.