The British Churches in Relation to the British PeopleA. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1849 - 458 páginas |
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... merely . I have not thought it worth while , therefore , to distin- guish them . They happened to serve my present purpose and being my own , I saw no good reason for ' rejecting them . I now submit the volume to the candid attention of ...
... merely . I have not thought it worth while , therefore , to distin- guish them . They happened to serve my present purpose and being my own , I saw no good reason for ' rejecting them . I now submit the volume to the candid attention of ...
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... merely for stipulated wages - Evil influence of the trade spirit upon the character and enterprise of our Churches - Conclusion 291-341 CHAPTER VII . SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HINDRANCES TO THE SUCCESS OF THE CHURCHES . The Churches ...
... merely for stipulated wages - Evil influence of the trade spirit upon the character and enterprise of our Churches - Conclusion 291-341 CHAPTER VII . SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HINDRANCES TO THE SUCCESS OF THE CHURCHES . The Churches ...
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... mere feeling . By some men it will be looked upon as not more unpleasant than it is unwise . They doubt the useful tendency of any investigation which may end in weakening their own , or others ' , reverence for existing reli- gious ...
... mere feeling . By some men it will be looked upon as not more unpleasant than it is unwise . They doubt the useful tendency of any investigation which may end in weakening their own , or others ' , reverence for existing reli- gious ...
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... mere mechanism — a germ of being to be evolved as distinguished from a form of substance to be impressed - originated of course by an external power , and regulated by laws inherent in its own nature , but , in a sense which separates ...
... mere mechanism — a germ of being to be evolved as distinguished from a form of substance to be impressed - originated of course by an external power , and regulated by laws inherent in its own nature , but , in a sense which separates ...
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... merely . Lively consciousness of duty adds to the force of spontaneous desire . Long before logic can conduct us to the conclusion , intuition has leapt upon it , that we are under obligation to make our convictions the joint property ...
... merely . Lively consciousness of duty adds to the force of spontaneous desire . Long before logic can conduct us to the conclusion , intuition has leapt upon it , that we are under obligation to make our convictions the joint property ...
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affections amongst apostolic appointed aristocratic sentiment ascer asso association authority bear become benevolence body British Churches character Christian Church of Christ Church of England common constitute display distinctions divine truth duty earnest effort eldership emotions enterprise eternal evil exclusively exercise exertion exhibit express extent fact faith feeling genius of Christianity give God's gospel habits heart honour human impression individual influence intel interest irreligion Jesus Christ labour less living look man's manifestation matter means ment merely mind minister ministry mission mode moral power nature ness object organized pathies perhaps piety political religionism position practical preaching present principle profession professional sentiment purpose racter recognise regard religious render respect revealed truth revelation sacred Scripture social society soul sphere spiritual success sympathy teaching Testament things thought tion trade spirit true uncon utterance vidual whilst word worldly
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Página 209 - For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, "Sit thou here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool," are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
Página 336 - Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, "and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law...
Página 26 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 26 - That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness, which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Página 29 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Página 38 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Página 82 - Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
Página 26 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Página 196 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Página 82 - Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. : but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And, because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son ; and if a Son, then an heir of God, through Christ.