The natural history of infidelity and superstition in contrast with Christian faithJohn W. Parker & Son, 1852 - Faith |
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... understanding connected with moral truth ; there are also moral emotions which hold an important place in the economy of the human soul ; and of these we will here- after speak - but what we now affirm is , that , at the foundation of ...
... understanding connected with moral truth ; there are also moral emotions which hold an important place in the economy of the human soul ; and of these we will here- after speak - but what we now affirm is , that , at the foundation of ...
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... understanding that which they affirm . And it is not too much to say that , apart from this principle and practice of belief , man , even in the full exercise of all his other intellectual powers , would be enveloped in such a cloud of ...
... understanding that which they affirm . And it is not too much to say that , apart from this principle and practice of belief , man , even in the full exercise of all his other intellectual powers , would be enveloped in such a cloud of ...
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... understanding , as distinguished from the reason ( 20 ) , or , with reference to the termi- nology of ancient times , the dianoetic faculty , in contradistinction to the noetic . This consists in the power of reasoning , —that is to say ...
... understanding , as distinguished from the reason ( 20 ) , or , with reference to the termi- nology of ancient times , the dianoetic faculty , in contradistinction to the noetic . This consists in the power of reasoning , —that is to say ...
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... understanding is a secondary or instrumental faculty ( 21 ) , in which we possess an apparatus for the use of all our knowledge ; and this possession may at once suggest to us the fact , that the vast and varied powers of our intellect ...
... understanding is a secondary or instrumental faculty ( 21 ) , in which we possess an apparatus for the use of all our knowledge ; and this possession may at once suggest to us the fact , that the vast and varied powers of our intellect ...
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... understanding must stand in its proper place - its place of an as- sistant or minister - to faith , as well as to all other primary faculties ; it must not affect to stand side by side with it . And , be it ob- served , this ...
... understanding must stand in its proper place - its place of an as- sistant or minister - to faith , as well as to all other primary faculties ; it must not affect to stand side by side with it . And , be it ob- served , this ...
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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.