Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, 1845-1846--1864-1865, Volume 12James Nisbet & Company, 1857 - Christianity |
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... once gird myself to the discharge of my duty , and humbly hope that by God's blessing on us this evening I may be enabled to speak , and you to reflect , upon the subject before us , in such a spirit as to strengthen us for the conflict ...
... once gird myself to the discharge of my duty , and humbly hope that by God's blessing on us this evening I may be enabled to speak , and you to reflect , upon the subject before us , in such a spirit as to strengthen us for the conflict ...
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... once and , as it were , intuitively rejected . Indeed , the only conceivable definition of sin is that it is a breach of God's law . Whatever be the apparent incongruity , we rest assured that one Being , and that a Being of pure ...
... once and , as it were , intuitively rejected . Indeed , the only conceivable definition of sin is that it is a breach of God's law . Whatever be the apparent incongruity , we rest assured that one Being , and that a Being of pure ...
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... once granted , there may be an infinite number of spirits reproducing evil to themselves and to those who voluntarily subject themselves to like depraved condi- tions . But no evil spirit , angelic or human , can violently * Descartes ...
... once granted , there may be an infinite number of spirits reproducing evil to themselves and to those who voluntarily subject themselves to like depraved condi- tions . But no evil spirit , angelic or human , can violently * Descartes ...
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... once received its nourishment recurs unhesitatingly to the same source , and uses the same mechanical means for availing itself of it . No person hesitates to act from any doubt as to the sun's rising to - morrow ; and this species of ...
... once received its nourishment recurs unhesitatingly to the same source , and uses the same mechanical means for availing itself of it . No person hesitates to act from any doubt as to the sun's rising to - morrow ; and this species of ...
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... once to determine it to be necessarily incapable , by any increased knowledge on my part , of har . monising with what I have hitherto considered to be truth ? III . — I will now , in the last place , bring before your consi- deration ...
... once to determine it to be necessarily incapable , by any increased knowledge on my part , of har . monising with what I have hitherto considered to be truth ? III . — I will now , in the last place , bring before your consi- deration ...
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Page 492 - And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door : And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow That lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 159 - And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Page 286 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God...
Page 227 - Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Page 169 - Open to me the gates of righteousness ; I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord.
Page 264 - For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Page 6 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way, as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now, as a giant, doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand and to rest himself...
Page 149 - And the scribe said unto Him, Well, Master, Thou hast said the truth: for there is one God ; and there is none other but He : and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, He said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
Page 225 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 503 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.