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... evidence ; why not attainable in moral questions . — Proba- bility . Different subjects require different kinds of proof . Moral certainty the ground of principles . — Opinion rests on lower evidence . — Difficulty in forming sound ...
... evidence ; why not attainable in moral questions . — Proba- bility . Different subjects require different kinds of proof . Moral certainty the ground of principles . — Opinion rests on lower evidence . — Difficulty in forming sound ...
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... Evidences of religion . Historical and critical . Moral evidence . Study of Scripture . General method of study.- Definite object in study . The general purport and Dan- spirit of Scripture the only safe ground for conclusions . - ger ...
... Evidences of religion . Historical and critical . Moral evidence . Study of Scripture . General method of study.- Definite object in study . The general purport and Dan- spirit of Scripture the only safe ground for conclusions . - ger ...
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... evidence adduced for them , will always be an offence in the eyes of the large majority , who take their opinions and their creed on trust , and both dread and resent any doubt cast on the infallibility of either , as an attack on the ...
... evidence adduced for them , will always be an offence in the eyes of the large majority , who take their opinions and their creed on trust , and both dread and resent any doubt cast on the infallibility of either , as an attack on the ...
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... evidence to be considered , to the complexity of the terms employed , and to the remoteness of the relations involved , reason is more and more called into action . The difference of value between the knowledge of mere facts , and that ...
... evidence to be considered , to the complexity of the terms employed , and to the remoteness of the relations involved , reason is more and more called into action . The difference of value between the knowledge of mere facts , and that ...
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... evidence established by this very power they have learnt to consider so dangerous ; in a word , that in all things , whether high or low , in which they exercise thought at all , they use their reason well or ill , with acuteness and ...
... evidence established by this very power they have learnt to consider so dangerous ; in a word , that in all things , whether high or low , in which they exercise thought at all , they use their reason well or ill , with acuteness and ...
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Page 367 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 112 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 420 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Page 109 - On which ground, too, let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of inValuable service: "Do the Duty which lies nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a Duty ! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.
Page 367 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and mort times for lucre and profession...
Page 204 - Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 397 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 394 - Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow. And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires. With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did.
Page 420 - Let not then your good be evil spoken of: for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Page 318 - ... far it is ours; without that, it is but so much loose matter floating in our brain. The memory may be stored, but the judgment is little better, and the stock of knowledge not increased, by being able to repeat what others have said, or produce the arguments we have found in them.