The Modern Review, Volume 5J. Clarke & Company, 1884 - Religion |
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... sense of Yahveh's universal might , so clear his vision of the necessity of Yahveh's chastisement , that he does not hesitate to describe him as employing the King of Babylon as the " servant " who executes his designs . When the ...
... sense of Yahveh's universal might , so clear his vision of the necessity of Yahveh's chastisement , that he does not hesitate to describe him as employing the King of Babylon as the " servant " who executes his designs . When the ...
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... sense of sin , which thrills through the pages of Jeremiah , not only as national guilt , but as personal . From these two elements rose a new view of religion , which placed it in the fellowship of the inner mind with its divine . Lord ...
... sense of sin , which thrills through the pages of Jeremiah , not only as national guilt , but as personal . From these two elements rose a new view of religion , which placed it in the fellowship of the inner mind with its divine . Lord ...
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... sense , and is plainly limited by the authors of the Levitical code to those moral elements of the divine nature with which man has kin . The holiness required of Israel was to penetrate all life , regulating deed and word and thought ...
... sense , and is plainly limited by the authors of the Levitical code to those moral elements of the divine nature with which man has kin . The holiness required of Israel was to penetrate all life , regulating deed and word and thought ...
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... sense of the word . Self- sacrifice — which can arise only from clearness of vision , or from a strong and fervid religious consciousness - was to all appearances dead . Every man was hurrying along in the race for worldly prosperity ...
... sense of the word . Self- sacrifice — which can arise only from clearness of vision , or from a strong and fervid religious consciousness - was to all appearances dead . Every man was hurrying along in the race for worldly prosperity ...
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... sense . Nor were some of the monks behindhand , for we hear at least of one old convent guardian who remaining took unto himself in the latter days of Sion four wives ! ' Tis a poor race of folk this , with none of the noble aims of ...
... sense . Nor were some of the monks behindhand , for we hear at least of one old convent guardian who remaining took unto himself in the latter days of Sion four wives ! ' Tis a poor race of folk this , with none of the noble aims of ...
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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.