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Page xii
... thing ; and what is that , save the spirit of those who wrote the 104th , 147th , and 148th Psalms ; the spirit , too , of him who wrote that Song of the Three Children , which is , as it were , the flower and crown of the Old Testament ...
... thing ; and what is that , save the spirit of those who wrote the 104th , 147th , and 148th Psalms ; the spirit , too , of him who wrote that Song of the Three Children , which is , as it were , the flower and crown of the Old Testament ...
Page xiii
... things serve Thee . " " Thou hast made them fast for ever and ever , Thou hast given them a law which shall not be broken " Let us pass on . this matter . There is no more to be said about But next : it will be demanded of us that ...
... things serve Thee . " " Thou hast made them fast for ever and ever , Thou hast given them a law which shall not be broken " Let us pass on . this matter . There is no more to be said about But next : it will be demanded of us that ...
Page xviii
... things , down to the moss which struggles for existence on the rock . Do I say that this is all ? That man is merely a part of nature , the puppet of circumstances and hereditary tendencies ? That brute competition is the one law of his ...
... things , down to the moss which struggles for existence on the rock . Do I say that this is all ? That man is merely a part of nature , the puppet of circumstances and hereditary tendencies ? That brute competition is the one law of his ...
Page xxi
... things : ours , to find out the Why . If you rejoin that we shall never find out the Why , unless we first learn something of the How , we shall not deny that . It may be most useful , I had almost said necessary , that the clergy ...
... things : ours , to find out the Why . If you rejoin that we shall never find out the Why , unless we first learn something of the How , we shall not deny that . It may be most useful , I had almost said necessary , that the clergy ...
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... things of which we have to study the Why ; and enable us to keep the How and the Why more religiously apart from each other . But if it be said - After all , there is no Why . The doctrine of evolution , by doing away with the theory of ...
... things of which we have to study the Why ; and enable us to keep the How and the Why more religiously apart from each other . But if it be said - After all , there is no Why . The doctrine of evolution , by doing away with the theory of ...
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Page xv - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Page 271 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20.
Page 262 - OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD : Lord, hear my voice. 0 let thine ears consider well : the voice of my complaint. If thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O Lord, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee : therefore shalt thou be feared.
Page x - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Page 131 - Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law ; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. 35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments ; for therein do I delight.
Page 282 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor...
Page 225 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 144 - Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Page 84 - Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven." And this word, "Yet once more," signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Page 242 - And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse ; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.