Discourses: Doctrinal and Practical ; Delivered in Essex Street Chapel, Volume 2R. Hunter, 1827 - Sermons, English |
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... the writer to publish a Second Volume of Discourses , which he submits , with becoming diffidence , to the same tribunal . Essex House , April 30 , 1827 . T. B. CONTENTS . SERMON I. IMPERFECTION OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE . PART.
... the writer to publish a Second Volume of Discourses , which he submits , with becoming diffidence , to the same tribunal . Essex House , April 30 , 1827 . T. B. CONTENTS . SERMON I. IMPERFECTION OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE . PART.
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... becomes a raving lunatic - the philosopher who astonished the world by the magni- tude and variety of his discoveries , is trans- formed into a child ; and the man , the ex- tent of whose genius , or the point and delicacy of whose wit ...
... becomes a raving lunatic - the philosopher who astonished the world by the magni- tude and variety of his discoveries , is trans- formed into a child ; and the man , the ex- tent of whose genius , or the point and delicacy of whose wit ...
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... becomes a lifeless , senseless , motion- less mass of clay . Of this awful change our knowledge at present is incomplete . What is death ? How is it produced ? How are the vital powers extinguished ; and what is the state of being which ...
... becomes a lifeless , senseless , motion- less mass of clay . Of this awful change our knowledge at present is incomplete . What is death ? How is it produced ? How are the vital powers extinguished ; and what is the state of being which ...
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... becomes the means of perfecting the character , and ele- vating human nature to the most exalted height of virtue and piety : it may still be asked , might not an equal sum of virtue and happiness be produced in which there should be no ...
... becomes the means of perfecting the character , and ele- vating human nature to the most exalted height of virtue and piety : it may still be asked , might not an equal sum of virtue and happiness be produced in which there should be no ...
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... becomes those to complain of the limitation of knowledge , who take so little pains to acquire the know- ledge which is within their reach . 2. However limited human knowledge may be in its utmost and most successful exertions , great ...
... becomes those to complain of the limitation of knowledge , who take so little pains to acquire the know- ledge which is within their reach . 2. However limited human knowledge may be in its utmost and most successful exertions , great ...
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Page 111 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 257 - And truly the Son of man goeth as it was determined ; but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed.
Page 271 - Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value ; and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
Page 259 - Jesus answered, He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
Page 409 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 452 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 271 - And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
Page 447 - And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Page 301 - Lord: looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled : lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 95 - And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them and of their children after them...