The Western Messenger, Volume 8Western Unitarian Association, 1841 |
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... received ; it is destined to do more , unless we are deceived in thinking our faith a vital one ; and the present is a suitable occasion to describe what we consider to be its peculiar vocation , premising that we do not wish our ...
... received ; it is destined to do more , unless we are deceived in thinking our faith a vital one ; and the present is a suitable occasion to describe what we consider to be its peculiar vocation , premising that we do not wish our ...
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... receive new views . The countless incidents of many years bring us into the position by which we become capable of admitting higher convictions . A removal of prejudices often does more than logical argumentation ; the soft dropping ...
... receive new views . The countless incidents of many years bring us into the position by which we become capable of admitting higher convictions . A removal of prejudices often does more than logical argumentation ; the soft dropping ...
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... received their ideas as to what man is by nature , more from the exaggerated representations of others , than from personal observation , will think , that the station I have assigned to him in the scale of being is far below that which ...
... received their ideas as to what man is by nature , more from the exaggerated representations of others , than from personal observation , will think , that the station I have assigned to him in the scale of being is far below that which ...
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... received no further aid . But he pressed on . Intent upon his education , and resolved to fit himself for the Bar , he allowed no difficulties to damp his ar- dor , or check his efforts . He was admitted to the Bar forty years ago , not ...
... received no further aid . But he pressed on . Intent upon his education , and resolved to fit himself for the Bar , he allowed no difficulties to damp his ar- dor , or check his efforts . He was admitted to the Bar forty years ago , not ...
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... receive great modification.- Still , labour in due proportion is an important part of our pres- ent lot . It is the condition of all outward comforts and im- provements , whilst , at the same time , it conspires with higher means and ...
... receive great modification.- Still , labour in due proportion is an important part of our pres- ent lot . It is the condition of all outward comforts and im- provements , whilst , at the same time , it conspires with higher means and ...
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Page 506 - Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Page 20 - For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit.
Page 58 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first sight if the bird be flown ; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Page 58 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear; It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove.
Page 19 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 20 - 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 155 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 505 - And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage...
Page 400 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. 35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home ; for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
Page 20 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.