The British Churches in Relation to the British PeopleA. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1849 - 458 páginas |
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... rules of guidance are to be sought , not in the first utterances of the objects without us , but in the monitions of the life within us . Not so much to impart instruction , which supposes the trans- mission of knowledge from the object ...
... rules of guidance are to be sought , not in the first utterances of the objects without us , but in the monitions of the life within us . Not so much to impart instruction , which supposes the trans- mission of knowledge from the object ...
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... rules , habits , associations , are of use only as they induce spiritual vitality to unfold . The self - acting evolution of the quickened soul - the beautiful efflorescence of a new principle of moral existence -the manifestation to ...
... rules , habits , associations , are of use only as they induce spiritual vitality to unfold . The self - acting evolution of the quickened soul - the beautiful efflorescence of a new principle of moral existence -the manifestation to ...
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... rule of duty by which we are to be guided is explicit enough . " I believed , therefore have I spoken- we also believe , and therefore speak , " shortly but emphatically lays down for us the only known law of obligation in this matter ...
... rule of duty by which we are to be guided is explicit enough . " I believed , therefore have I spoken- we also believe , and therefore speak , " shortly but emphatically lays down for us the only known law of obligation in this matter ...
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... and announced -and we may cherish the hope that He who weaves all things into his glorious plan will over- rule even our mistakes for his own honour . CHAPTER II . THE PROPER OBJECT AND MEANS OF THE IT SHOULD BE TREATED . 59.
... and announced -and we may cherish the hope that He who weaves all things into his glorious plan will over- rule even our mistakes for his own honour . CHAPTER II . THE PROPER OBJECT AND MEANS OF THE IT SHOULD BE TREATED . 59.
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... rule , or of grateful acknowledg ment that it is our interest and honour to obey . This absence of sympathy with moral law , and the Supreme moral Governor of whose will it is an expression , is soon converted into positive enmity by a ...
... rule , or of grateful acknowledg ment that it is our interest and honour to obey . This absence of sympathy with moral law , and the Supreme moral Governor of whose will it is an expression , is soon converted into positive enmity by a ...
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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.