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... look around me to discern in what company I have placed myself by this mode of reasoning ; and inquire , who there are , among contemporaries or pred- ecessors , to give it the weight of their authority . I have reasoned from the ...
... look around me to discern in what company I have placed myself by this mode of reasoning ; and inquire , who there are , among contemporaries or pred- ecessors , to give it the weight of their authority . I have reasoned from the ...
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... look not at the things which are seen , but at the things which are not seen ; for the things which are seen are ... looks round on his bleak hills , and calls the rough landscape " the glory of all lands . " And the " China man " exults ...
... look not at the things which are seen , but at the things which are not seen ; for the things which are seen are ... looks round on his bleak hills , and calls the rough landscape " the glory of all lands . " And the " China man " exults ...
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... look with indifference on the changes which Christianity has un- dergone , -- on the contests between light and darkness , in which they have alternately triumphed , -- in short , on dogmatic history , which acquaints him with the ...
... look with indifference on the changes which Christianity has un- dergone , -- on the contests between light and darkness , in which they have alternately triumphed , -- in short , on dogmatic history , which acquaints him with the ...
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... look abroad for principles more congenial to the cold specula- tions of reason and philosophy . They began accordingly , in the former part of the eighteenth cen- tury , to study the writings of the Polish Socinians , the English De ...
... look abroad for principles more congenial to the cold specula- tions of reason and philosophy . They began accordingly , in the former part of the eighteenth cen- tury , to study the writings of the Polish Socinians , the English De ...
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... look with favour upon the worship and ceremonies of the Catholic church as most congenial to religious emotion , and actually desert , as numbers did , the ranks of the Protestants . It was no wonder that some of the more re- flecting ...
... look with favour upon the worship and ceremonies of the Catholic church as most congenial to religious emotion , and actually desert , as numbers did , the ranks of the Protestants . It was no wonder that some of the more re- flecting ...
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Page 643 - And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues : and they repented not to give him glory.
Page 591 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
Page 101 - And he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 548 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks...
Page 545 - ... 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 519 - But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that 1 am baptized with ? They say unto Him, We are able. And He saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with...
Page 307 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
Page 151 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Page 93 - I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony...
Page 485 - Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued,' not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre ; holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.