Memoirs, Including Letters, and Select Remains, of John Urquhart, Late of the University of St. Andrew's, Volume 1Crocker and Brewster, 1828 - 270 pages |
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... reasons for making this application to me , will be sufficiently apparent to the reader of the volumes , so that no explanation on that point is required in this place . Prompted at once by my love for the individual , and by a sense of ...
... reasons for making this application to me , will be sufficiently apparent to the reader of the volumes , so that no explanation on that point is required in this place . Prompted at once by my love for the individual , and by a sense of ...
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... reason is the author of instinct ; yet the former advances by slow degrees , and can never be pronounced perfect ; while the latter is perfect in every individual of the species ; and that , not gradually , but at once . We have only to ...
... reason is the author of instinct ; yet the former advances by slow degrees , and can never be pronounced perfect ; while the latter is perfect in every individual of the species ; and that , not gradually , but at once . We have only to ...
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... reason to believe that advantage was duly taken of his docile and inquisitive disposition , to direct his attention to the most interesting of all subjects . It is not often that we can trace the impressions of childhood in the future ...
... reason to believe that advantage was duly taken of his docile and inquisitive disposition , to direct his attention to the most interesting of all subjects . It is not often that we can trace the impressions of childhood in the future ...
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... reason be as- signed why this should not be more generally the case ? Is the business of religious instruction so easy that any young person , inclined to take the trouble , is sufficiently qualified for the em- ployment ? Is it too ...
... reason be as- signed why this should not be more generally the case ? Is the business of religious instruction so easy that any young person , inclined to take the trouble , is sufficiently qualified for the em- ployment ? Is it too ...
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... reason to fear , a cold orthodoxy is all that is ever attained . Under the influence of these causes , Christianity has sus- tained more injury than from all other things . The ruin of any church may be dated from the time that it ...
... reason to fear , a cold orthodoxy is all that is ever attained . Under the influence of these causes , Christianity has sus- tained more injury than from all other things . The ruin of any church may be dated from the time that it ...
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Page 69 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 103 - Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, He shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonied at thee ; His visage was so marred more than any man, And his form more than the sons of men...
Page 22 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 163 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 153 - I judge it as certain and clear a truth as can any where be delivered, that "the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.
Page 134 - EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
Page 108 - For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
Page 102 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Page 67 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 103 - 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.