The Works of William E. Channing, D. D.James Munroe, 1841 - Antislavery movements |
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... regards man in his diversified and ever - multiplying relations to his Creator and to his fellow - creatures , to the present state and to all future ages . Its aim is , to instruct and quicken us to cultivate an enlarged virtue ; to ...
... regards man in his diversified and ever - multiplying relations to his Creator and to his fellow - creatures , to the present state and to all future ages . Its aim is , to instruct and quicken us to cultivate an enlarged virtue ; to ...
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... regard with a favorable eye ; whilst those of an opposite char- acter should be regarded with great distrust . I have said , that this rational method of preaching Christianity is important , if we would secure a firm be- lief to ...
... regard with a favorable eye ; whilst those of an opposite char- acter should be regarded with great distrust . I have said , that this rational method of preaching Christianity is important , if we would secure a firm be- lief to ...
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... regard war as a trade by which to thrive , who hire themselves to fight and slay in any cause , and who destroy their fellow- beings with as little concern , as the husbandman does the vermin that infest his fields , I know no class of ...
... regard war as a trade by which to thrive , who hire themselves to fight and slay in any cause , and who destroy their fellow- beings with as little concern , as the husbandman does the vermin that infest his fields , I know no class of ...
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... regard the Scriptures as the records of God's successive revelations to mankind , and particularly of the last and most perfect revelation of his will by Jesus Christ . Whatever doctrines seem to us to be clearly taught in the ...
... regard the Scriptures as the records of God's successive revelations to mankind , and particularly of the last and most perfect revelation of his will by Jesus Christ . Whatever doctrines seem to us to be clearly taught in the ...
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... regard as of divine authority , and profess to make the rule of our lives . This authority , which we give to the Scriptures , is a reason , we conceive , for studying them with peculiar care , and for inquiring anxiously into the ...
... regard as of divine authority , and profess to make the rule of our lives . This authority , which we give to the Scriptures , is a reason , we conceive , for studying them with peculiar care , and for inquiring anxiously into the ...
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Page 105 - There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews : The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God ; for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Page 10 - For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Page 7 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 174 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 287 - Honour thy father and thy mother (which is the first commandment with promise), that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the earth.
Page 175 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 163 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Page 62 - Jewish, the completion of a vast scheme of providence, requiring great extent of view in the reader. Still more, the Bible treats of subjects on which we receive ideas from other sources besides itself; such subjects as the nature, passions, relations, and duties of man ; and it expects us to restrain and modify its language by the known truths, which observation and experience furnish on these topics.
Page 62 - Every proposition is linked with others, and is to be compared with others ; that its full and precise import may be understood. Nothing stands alone. The New Testament is built on the Old. The Christian dispensation is a continuation of the Jewish, the completion of a vast scheme of providence, requiring great extent of view in the reader. Still more, the Bible treats of subjects on which we receive ideas from other sources besides itself; such subjects as the nature, passions, relations, and duties...
Page 208 - I have no anxiety to wear the livery of any party. I, indeed, take cheerfully the name of a Unitarian, because unwearied efforts are used to raise against it a popular cry ; and I have not so learned Christ as to shrink from reproaches cast on what I deem his truth.