The Works of William E. Channing, D. D.James Munroe, 1841 - Antislavery movements |
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... spirit among hearers , who pronounce with confidence on this and another minister , that they do not preach Christ , because their discourses do not turn on a few topics in relation to the Saviour , which are thought to contain the ...
... spirit among hearers , who pronounce with confidence on this and another minister , that they do not preach Christ , because their discourses do not turn on a few topics in relation to the Saviour , which are thought to contain the ...
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... spirit which no scorn can deter and no example seduce from asserting truth and adher- ing to the cause which conscience approves . With this spirit of martyrs , this hardness and intrepidity of sold- iers of the cross , the Gospel calls ...
... spirit which no scorn can deter and no example seduce from asserting truth and adher- ing to the cause which conscience approves . With this spirit of martyrs , this hardness and intrepidity of sold- iers of the cross , the Gospel calls ...
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... spirit . It appeals too constantly to the lowest principle of hu- man nature ; I mean the principle of fear , which under judicious excitement is indeed of great and undoubted use , but which , as every parent knows , when habitually ...
... spirit . It appeals too constantly to the lowest principle of hu- man nature ; I mean the principle of fear , which under judicious excitement is indeed of great and undoubted use , but which , as every parent knows , when habitually ...
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... spirit , and to seek the meaning in the state and customs of the writer and of his age , than the New Testament . No book is written in a more popular , figurative , and animated style , the very style which re- quires the most constant ...
... spirit , and to seek the meaning in the state and customs of the writer and of his age , than the New Testament . No book is written in a more popular , figurative , and animated style , the very style which re- quires the most constant ...
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... Spirit and of miraculous powers ; that he did not comply with the demands of Greek or Jew ; that he preached a crucified Messiah , and no other teacher or deliverer ; and that he always insisted , that the religion of Jesus , unaided by ...
... Spirit and of miraculous powers ; that he did not comply with the demands of Greek or Jew ; that he preached a crucified Messiah , and no other teacher or deliverer ; and that he always insisted , that the religion of Jesus , unaided by ...
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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.