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... principles or prejudices of the people whom he was addressing . He often made a favour- ite opinion of their own the starting point of his explanation ; and educing a dexterous but irresistible train of argument from some principle upon ...
... principles or prejudices of the people whom he was addressing . He often made a favour- ite opinion of their own the starting point of his explanation ; and educing a dexterous but irresistible train of argument from some principle upon ...
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... principle of being all things to all men ? Should he not have accommodated his discussion to the prevailing taste , and literature , and philoso- phy of the times ? Should he not have clos- ed with the people , whom he was address- ing ...
... principle of being all things to all men ? Should he not have accommodated his discussion to the prevailing taste , and literature , and philoso- phy of the times ? Should he not have clos- ed with the people , whom he was address- ing ...
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Thomas Chalmers. ing , on some favourite principle of their own ; and , in the prosecution of this princi- ple , might he not have got completely be- yond the comprehension of a numerous class of zealous , humble , and devoted Christians ...
Thomas Chalmers. ing , on some favourite principle of their own ; and , in the prosecution of this princi- ple , might he not have got completely be- yond the comprehension of a numerous class of zealous , humble , and devoted Christians ...
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... principle to the still more distant parts of the universe ? What though , from this remote point of observation , we can see nothing but the naked roundness of yon planetary orbs ? Are we therefore to say , that they are so many vast ...
... principle to the still more distant parts of the universe ? What though , from this remote point of observation , we can see nothing but the naked roundness of yon planetary orbs ? Are we therefore to say , that they are so many vast ...
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... principle , that he would take up with nothing which wanted evidence , and he kept by his demonstrations , and his measurements , and his proofs ; and , if it be true that he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a ...
... principle , that he would take up with nothing which wanted evidence , and he kept by his demonstrations , and his measurements , and his proofs ; and , if it be true that he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a ...
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Page 273 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon...
Page 270 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 275 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Page 270 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 150 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 14 - I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
Page 275 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Page 21 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 112 - The other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Page 29 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.