The Modern Review, Volume 5J. Clarke & Company, 1884 - Religion |
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... believe no longer in the mass , nor the pleading of saints . We believe no longer in the cloister , the priest , or aught of popedom . We know they have long led us astray . We do not think long prayers are good , as prayer has been ...
... believe no longer in the mass , nor the pleading of saints . We believe no longer in the cloister , the priest , or aught of popedom . We know they have long led us astray . We do not think long prayers are good , as prayer has been ...
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... believe was a vast political conspiracy , and they stopped at no brutality which they fancied might check its growth , no bloodshed which could assist the work of extermination . Persecution brought , as it always does , a terrible ...
... believe was a vast political conspiracy , and they stopped at no brutality which they fancied might check its growth , no bloodshed which could assist the work of extermination . Persecution brought , as it always does , a terrible ...
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... believe that there is no truth in religion ; they doubt if there be truth in anything ; look upon belief as the mark of an inferior understanding- & c . , & c . There are other foreigners who have observed us more closely , or for a ...
... believe that there is no truth in religion ; they doubt if there be truth in anything ; look upon belief as the mark of an inferior understanding- & c . , & c . There are other foreigners who have observed us more closely , or for a ...
Page 108
... believe it to be our duty to make the following declara- tion in opposition to those which characterise the liberal doctrine , so - called . For us Christianity is not simply a product of the progress of human reason and conscience . It ...
... believe it to be our duty to make the following declara- tion in opposition to those which characterise the liberal doctrine , so - called . For us Christianity is not simply a product of the progress of human reason and conscience . It ...
Page 109
... believe that many who signed this document which was struck off in the heat of the conflict , would not put it in the same shape to - day , and would express their convictions in a form less directly op- posed to modern theology . Let ...
... believe that many who signed this document which was struck off in the heat of the conflict , would not put it in the same shape to - day , and would express their convictions in a form less directly op- posed to modern theology . Let ...
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Page 275 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Page 327 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Page 188 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 291 - God with man no more has been revealed to the nineteenth century than to the first, or to London than to the wildest parish in the Hebrides.
Page 9 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 15 - Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine : And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 236 - For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them , and not pull them down ; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord : and they shall be my people, and I will be their God : for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Page 657 - In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer.
Page 416 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Page 292 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.