Essays [first Series] on Some of the Peculiarities of the Christian ReligionB. Fellowes, 1837 - 383 pages |
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Richard Whately. Scripture - accounts of sin " entering into the world , and death by sin ; " whereas the Scriptures leave us , with respect to the difficulty in ques- tion , just where they find us , and are manifestly not designed to ...
Richard Whately. Scripture - accounts of sin " entering into the world , and death by sin ; " whereas the Scriptures leave us , with respect to the difficulty in ques- tion , just where they find us , and are manifestly not designed to ...
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... himself ; sublime as is the idea of the eternal Creator himself , our own eternal exist- ence after death is an idea calculated to strike us with still more overpowering emotions . That Man , feeble and shortlived as he appears on earth.
... himself ; sublime as is the idea of the eternal Creator himself , our own eternal exist- ence after death is an idea calculated to strike us with still more overpowering emotions . That Man , feeble and shortlived as he appears on earth.
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... " and as expecting that " it would , at the moment of our natural death , be dispersed ( as he expresses it ) like air or smoke , and cease altogether to exist , so that it would require no 24 Revelation of a future state . [ ESSAY I.
... " and as expecting that " it would , at the moment of our natural death , be dispersed ( as he expresses it ) like air or smoke , and cease altogether to exist , so that it would require no 24 Revelation of a future state . [ ESSAY I.
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... death , and can retain any thing of its powers and intelligence ; " - when we find this , I say , asserted , or rather alluded to , as notoriously the state of popular opinion , we can surely entertain but little doubt that the accounts ...
... death , and can retain any thing of its powers and intelligence ; " - when we find this , I say , asserted , or rather alluded to , as notoriously the state of popular opinion , we can surely entertain but little doubt that the accounts ...
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... death has separated them . We should be apt to say that such a one's body is here , and that he , properly the person himself , is departed to the other world ; but Homer uses the very opposite language in speaking of the heroes slain ...
... death has separated them . We should be apt to say that such a one's body is here , and that he , properly the person himself , is departed to the other world ; but Homer uses the very opposite language in speaking of the heroes slain ...
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Page 107 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page 333 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 136 - And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 168 - For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Page 128 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them : for I am the LORD their God.
Page 147 - For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befal you in the latter days ; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Page 123 - Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Page 126 - ... and ye shall eat and not be satisfied. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me, then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury ; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Page 134 - And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Page 132 - ... that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him : for he is thy life, and the length of thy days : that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.