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... nature to receive , it is a sense of religion . As soon as his mind opens to observation and reflection , he discerns innume- rable marks of his dependant state . He finds himself placed by some su- perior power in a vast world , where ...
... nature to receive , it is a sense of religion . As soon as his mind opens to observation and reflection , he discerns innume- rable marks of his dependant state . He finds himself placed by some su- perior power in a vast world , where ...
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... nature has to him a benign aspect . If engaged in active life , he is the friend of men ; and he is happy in the exertions of that friendship . If left in retirement , he walks among the works of nature as with God . Every object is en ...
... nature has to him a benign aspect . If engaged in active life , he is the friend of men ; and he is happy in the exertions of that friendship . If left in retirement , he walks among the works of nature as with God . Every object is en ...
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... natural and revealed , gave us reason to expect . But such a solution of the difficulty will be thought imperfect . It may , perhaps , not give much satisfaction to shew , that all religion abounds with difficulties of a like nature ...
... natural and revealed , gave us reason to expect . But such a solution of the difficulty will be thought imperfect . It may , perhaps , not give much satisfaction to shew , that all religion abounds with difficulties of a like nature ...
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... nature of that 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 ...
... nature of that 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 ...
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... nature . And suitable to such discoveries , is the whole strain of the gospel . It were unnecessary to appeal to any single precept . You need only open the New Testament , to find this virtue perpetually inculcated . Charity , or love ...
... nature . And suitable to such discoveries , is the whole strain of the gospel . It were unnecessary to appeal to any single precept . You need only open the New Testament , to find this virtue perpetually inculcated . Charity , or love ...
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