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... eternal objects . He employs two metaphors to repre- sent more strongly the disadvantages under which we lie : one , that we see those objects through a glass , that is , through the intervention of a medium which obscures their glory ...
... eternal objects . He employs two metaphors to repre- sent more strongly the disadvantages under which we lie : one , that we see those objects through a glass , that is , through the intervention of a medium which obscures their glory ...
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... eternal world , we are nevertheless permitted only to know in part , and to see through a glass darkly . It plainly appears to be the plan of the Deity , in all his dispensations , to mix light with darkness , evidence with uncertainty ...
... eternal world , we are nevertheless permitted only to know in part , and to see through a glass darkly . It plainly appears to be the plan of the Deity , in all his dispensations , to mix light with darkness , evidence with uncertainty ...
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... eternal objects which the sceptic was supposed to desire . The imme- diate effect of such a discovery would be , to annihilate in our eye all human objects , and to produce a total stag- nation in the affairs of the world . Were the ...
... eternal objects which the sceptic was supposed to desire . The imme- diate effect of such a discovery would be , to annihilate in our eye all human objects , and to produce a total stag- nation in the affairs of the world . Were the ...
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... eternal objects , preserves the competition . Remove that obscurity , and you remove hu- man virtue from its place . You over- throw that whole system of discipline , otherwise , it ought not to be other- wise , in our present state ...
... eternal objects , preserves the competition . Remove that obscurity , and you remove hu- man virtue from its place . You over- throw that whole system of discipline , otherwise , it ought not to be other- wise , in our present state ...
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... Eternal Being who rules the universe ; why the manner in which he operates on the natural and moral world , is wholly concealed ; why we are kept in such ignorance with re- spect to the extent of his works , to the nature and agency of ...
... Eternal Being who rules the universe ; why the manner in which he operates on the natural and moral world , is wholly concealed ; why we are kept in such ignorance with re- spect to the extent of his works , to the nature and agency of ...
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