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... heaven were to appear upon earth , she would be recognized and reverenced , even by the most abject , or the most perverted of mankind . Read then the Gospels , simply as historical me- moirs and by such aids as they alone supply , make ...
... heaven were to appear upon earth , she would be recognized and reverenced , even by the most abject , or the most perverted of mankind . Read then the Gospels , simply as historical me- moirs and by such aids as they alone supply , make ...
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... heaven . Of the three Jewish sects , extant in our Lord's time , two of them — that is to say , the two that made pretensions to any sort of piety , had assumed the ascetic garb , in its two customary species - the philosophic ( the ...
... heaven . Of the three Jewish sects , extant in our Lord's time , two of them — that is to say , the two that made pretensions to any sort of piety , had assumed the ascetic garb , in its two customary species - the philosophic ( the ...
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... heaven , did not any more disdain the poor solaces of mortality , than disregard its transient pains and woes ? Follow this same Jesus from the banquets of the opulent , where he showed no scruples in diet , to the high- ways and ...
... heaven , did not any more disdain the poor solaces of mortality , than disregard its transient pains and woes ? Follow this same Jesus from the banquets of the opulent , where he showed no scruples in diet , to the high- ways and ...
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... found only within marble palaces . But in the modern world , and this vast change is attributable mainly to the spread of Christianity , truth has become , like the very breezes of heaven , common property , and 56 ON SPIRITUAL.
... found only within marble palaces . But in the modern world , and this vast change is attributable mainly to the spread of Christianity , truth has become , like the very breezes of heaven , common property , and 56 ON SPIRITUAL.
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Isaac Taylor. the very breezes of heaven , common property , and is everywhere sweet , salutary , free ; and enjoyed with equal zest in the cottage and the palace . By no means so strange to the ear of the ancient world was the doctrine ...
Isaac Taylor. the very breezes of heaven , common property , and is everywhere sweet , salutary , free ; and enjoyed with equal zest in the cottage and the palace . By no means so strange to the ear of the ancient world was the doctrine ...
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Page 118 - The Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping, and Adoration, as well of Images as of Reliques, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God.
Page 3 - Atonement and Sacrifice. Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice, and on the Principal Arguments advanced, and the Mode of Reasoning employed by the Opponents of those Doctrines, as held by the Established Church.
Page 67 - For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father.
Page 4 - This Edition, which the Author has arranged and revised with the same care as if it were intended for posthumous publication, includes many pieces which either have never before been collected, or have hitherto remained unpublished. Preliminary notices are affixed to the long poems, — the whole of the notes retained, — and such additional ones incorporated as the Author, since the first publication, has seen occasion to insert.
Page 5 - ... lectures comprise an examination of the deluge ; the sixth discusses the apparent dissonance between the decisions of geologists, and the hitherto received interpretation of Scripture, with an additional exposition of the diluvial...
Page 128 - By this justification we have the spirit of adoption, peace with God, and a joyful prospect of our eternal inheritance, Rom. v. 1, 2. " Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ — and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Page 68 - If any love me, he will keep my words, and we will come unto him, and will make our abode with him."* Give therefore admittance unto Christ, and deny entrance to all others.
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