The natural history of infidelity and superstition in contrast with Christian faithJohn W. Parker & Son, 1852 - Faith |
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... distinct from each other ( 3 ) . The soul is one ; and its several powers are combined , not as colours in the rainbow , but as the same colours when blended in the pure and perfect light . We may indeed contemplate and treat of our ...
... distinct from each other ( 3 ) . The soul is one ; and its several powers are combined , not as colours in the rainbow , but as the same colours when blended in the pure and perfect light . We may indeed contemplate and treat of our ...
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... the senses , a faculty distinct from sensible perception , and above it . The mind has an inherent power of grasping , for example , the truth of a mathematical axiom , as soon as that truth may be presented to its LECTURE I. 9.
... the senses , a faculty distinct from sensible perception , and above it . The mind has an inherent power of grasping , for example , the truth of a mathematical axiom , as soon as that truth may be presented to its LECTURE I. 9.
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... distinct primitive judgment , or fundamental notion of right and wrong . Some persons regard this power as a peculiar gift of God ; and it matters little if they suppose it to have been superadded to all other fa- culties , or even to ...
... distinct primitive judgment , or fundamental notion of right and wrong . Some persons regard this power as a peculiar gift of God ; and it matters little if they suppose it to have been superadded to all other fa- culties , or even to ...
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... distinct from any of those which have been hitherto enumerated , but in harmony with them all , - the principle of faith , the faculty of grasp- ing evidence , with a propensity to admit it when duly presented to the mind . Just as by ...
... distinct from any of those which have been hitherto enumerated , but in harmony with them all , - the principle of faith , the faculty of grasp- ing evidence , with a propensity to admit it when duly presented to the mind . Just as by ...
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... distinct from , Intellect . On the contrary , Faith is itself an intellectual faculty , designed for the recognition of its appropriate truths when duly presented ; as much so as the power of direct and immediate intuition , which is ...
... distinct from , Intellect . On the contrary , Faith is itself an intellectual faculty , designed for the recognition of its appropriate truths when duly presented ; as much so as the power of direct and immediate intuition , which is ...
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Page 422 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 512 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments [be] duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page iv - Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following Subjects — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church — • upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the Articles of the Christian Faith, as comprehended in the...
Page 251 - Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money ; come ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Page 421 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
Page 471 - But superstition hath been the confusion of many states; and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools, and arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order.
Page 453 - Forasmuch, then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil : and deliver them, who through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Page 433 - His choice is approved by the elegant historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.
Page 252 - Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites : have not I sent thee ? And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel ? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.