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... recognise , " I replied , " that the primary elements of nature are mysterious , that human language can express them very imperfectly , and that even human thought finds itself baffled to conceive about them what still it must believe ...
... recognise , " I replied , " that the primary elements of nature are mysterious , that human language can express them very imperfectly , and that even human thought finds itself baffled to conceive about them what still it must believe ...
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... recognise that human life can be in His image only by becoming continually more operative , more fruitful , more social . 1 See for example St. Matt . xi . 27 ; xii . 32 ; xxviii . 19 ; and St. John xiv . Revelation , or the Word of God ...
... recognise that human life can be in His image only by becoming continually more operative , more fruitful , more social . 1 See for example St. Matt . xi . 27 ; xii . 32 ; xxviii . 19 ; and St. John xiv . Revelation , or the Word of God ...
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... further revelation of God in humanity . The more truly human men are , the more they recognise as binding on them a law 1 Rom . i . 20 . of righteousness , and the more men are conscious of Revelation , or the Word of God . 27 PAGE 1.
... further revelation of God in humanity . The more truly human men are , the more they recognise as binding on them a law 1 Rom . i . 20 . of righteousness , and the more men are conscious of Revelation , or the Word of God . 27 PAGE 1.
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... recognised as revealers of the light , to be honoured and obeyed . This spirit of prophecy is to be found among heathen peoples - in a Zoroaster , a Buddha an Aeschylus ; and St. Paul seems to recognise it there , for he quotes to the ...
... recognised as revealers of the light , to be honoured and obeyed . This spirit of prophecy is to be found among heathen peoples - in a Zoroaster , a Buddha an Aeschylus ; and St. Paul seems to recognise it there , for he quotes to the ...
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... hold to his own religion and do his best , and the wise man will recognise that the important matter is not the creed but the conduct . By the mouth of Nathan , Lessing speaks the lati- 32 Revelation , or the Word of God .
... hold to his own religion and do his best , and the wise man will recognise that the important matter is not the creed but the conduct . By the mouth of Nathan , Lessing speaks the lati- 32 Revelation , or the Word of God .
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Page 26 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Page 54 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Page 26 - Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man. he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Page 1 - THO' truths in manhood darkly join, Deep-seated in our mystic frame, We yield all blessing to the name Of Him that made them current coin ; For Wisdom dealt with mortal powers, Where truth in closest words shall fail, When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors.
Page 26 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou. Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Page 103 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 56 - Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou besoughtest me : shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee ? And his lord was wroth and delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay all that was due. So shall also My heavenly Father do unto you if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.
Page 83 - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Page 109 - Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name : that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth ; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father'
Page 97 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight ; they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward : Oh why should heavenly God to men have such regard) THE SEASONS.