Essays on the human intellect, as constructed by God, and on our Saviour, considered in his character of ManJohn Rodwell, 1827 - 170 pages |
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... , do not see the reason of this purposes . If one day all the course of Providence be justified , as we believe , they will cease to have even the comfort of thinking 2 . 1 that had they been rightly managed , they would 18.
... , do not see the reason of this purposes . If one day all the course of Providence be justified , as we believe , they will cease to have even the comfort of thinking 2 . 1 that had they been rightly managed , they would 18.
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... reason , his glorious talents , will wither within him , and leave him the desolated possessor of unoccupied capacities and enfeebled abilities . Let him think of God as the constructor of all that universe of which it is his pride and ...
... reason , his glorious talents , will wither within him , and leave him the desolated possessor of unoccupied capacities and enfeebled abilities . Let him think of God as the constructor of all that universe of which it is his pride and ...
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... reason and order to believe . Such are the general powers which the mind de- lights in employing ; let us now inquire more par- ticularly into the mechanism by which each is ex- cited to exertion . The intellectual powers may be divided ...
... reason and order to believe . Such are the general powers which the mind de- lights in employing ; let us now inquire more par- ticularly into the mechanism by which each is ex- cited to exertion . The intellectual powers may be divided ...
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... reason- ings published respecting the existence and nature of God ; the mind , when engaged upon this subject , runs naturally in the line I have mentioned . vidiw obiges occurrence of those events Base following the T 29.
... reason- ings published respecting the existence and nature of God ; the mind , when engaged upon this subject , runs naturally in the line I have mentioned . vidiw obiges occurrence of those events Base following the T 29.
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... reasons can be given for the phenomena , of which the mere practitioner only inquires the existence . But beyond the furthest discovery of the mechanism of the plant there is the third stage of inquiry , which leads to the cause of ...
... reasons can be given for the phenomena , of which the mere practitioner only inquires the existence . But beyond the furthest discovery of the mechanism of the plant there is the third stage of inquiry , which leads to the cause of ...
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Page 111 - And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in •the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
Page 108 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom : Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Page 108 - For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one ; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren...
Page 111 - And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Page 3 - This is dispensed, and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By lik'ning spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heav'n ; and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 87 - ... the world me, — But let us part fair foes; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, — hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing; I would also deem O'er others...
Page 76 - If I may presume to speak my own sentiments, I once believed this doctrine of ideas so firmly as to embrace the whole of Berkeley's system in consequence of it; till, finding other consequences to follow from it, which gave me more uneasiness than the want of a material world, it came into my mind, more than forty years ago, to put the question, What evidence have I for this doctrine, that all the objects of my knowledge are ideas in my own mind?
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Page 132 - Father, forgive them," he says, " for they know not what they do." It is an integral understanding of life that Jesus wishes, then, to impart; not an ethic which is an understanding of what life is not but ought to be. His disciples rightly described it as a