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... wisdom of the Eternal . It is insolent assumption in a finite being to decide even in thought what the facts of God's universe ought to be ; the sole question com- petent to him is what they are : and no man of ordinary information is ...
... wisdom of the Eternal . It is insolent assumption in a finite being to decide even in thought what the facts of God's universe ought to be ; the sole question com- petent to him is what they are : and no man of ordinary information is ...
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... wisdom had drawn up , and which some may have fondly imagined to contain , in final and rounded perfection , all that can be known of the ways of God to man , and the duty of man towards God . But who will deliberately maintain that the ...
... wisdom had drawn up , and which some may have fondly imagined to contain , in final and rounded perfection , all that can be known of the ways of God to man , and the duty of man towards God . But who will deliberately maintain that the ...
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... wisdom made by modern science , and inspired with a tolerance , a sympathy , a charity , un- known in the hard old time , the pulpit may , we think , be destined to achieve more illustrious triumphs , and to wield a mightier power in ...
... wisdom made by modern science , and inspired with a tolerance , a sympathy , a charity , un- known in the hard old time , the pulpit may , we think , be destined to achieve more illustrious triumphs , and to wield a mightier power in ...
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... wisdom - to hoard , with miser's care , every fragment of beneficial knowledge -- to twine the beautiful around the true , as the acanthus leaf around the Corinthian pillar - to quell the sinward propensities of the nature to evolve the ...
... wisdom - to hoard , with miser's care , every fragment of beneficial knowledge -- to twine the beautiful around the true , as the acanthus leaf around the Corinthian pillar - to quell the sinward propensities of the nature to evolve the ...
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... wisdom . But to be safe and to chariot of fire . It is a beneficent arrangement of Pro- be perfect , you must connect with them the spirit of vidence , that ' the Divinity which shapes our ends ' prayer . Emulation , unchastened by any ...
... wisdom . But to be safe and to chariot of fire . It is a beneficent arrangement of Pro- be perfect , you must connect with them the spirit of vidence , that ' the Divinity which shapes our ends ' prayer . Emulation , unchastened by any ...
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Page 22 - Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost, which is within you ? Again he saith, You are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
Page 15 - No, by no means, I will not stir, neither will I have the meeting dismissed for this. Come, be of good cheer; let us not be daunted; our cause is good, we need not be ashamed of it; to preach God's Word, is so good a work, that we shall be well rewarded, if we suffer for that...
Page 15 - God of his mercy should choose me to go upon the forlorn hope in this country; that is, to be the first, that should be opposed, for the gospel ; if I should fly, it might be a discouragement to the whole body that might follow after.
Page 15 - ... end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm, or be found to come over again without special licence from the king, you must stretch by the neck for it, I tell you plainly ; ' — and so he bid my jailer have me away.
Page 15 - You must be had back again to prison, and there lie for three months following ; and at three months' end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service, and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if, after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm...
Page 19 - Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory...
Page 20 - Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; and if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither would they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
Page 19 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be ; but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Page 15 - I told him, as to this matter, I was at a point with him; for if I were out of prison today, I would preach the Gospel again tomorrow, by the help of God.
Page 12 - ... faithful to duty — to open the world's dim eye to the majesty of conscience — to gather and instruct the orphans bereft of a father's blessing and of a mother's prayer — to care for the outcast and abandoned, who have drunk in iniquity with their mother's milk, whom the priest and the...