Defects of Modern Christianity: And Other Sermons Preached in St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens, 1881-2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1885 - 363 páginas |
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... matter whether his conduct be good , bad , or indifferent.1 This diversity in so - called Christian sects existed from the very first . St John found it necessary to exhort his readers to exercise a thoughtful discrimination . " Believe ...
... matter whether his conduct be good , bad , or indifferent.1 This diversity in so - called Christian sects existed from the very first . St John found it necessary to exhort his readers to exercise a thoughtful discrimination . " Believe ...
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... matter - of - fact fashion which is the very opposite of Christian faith . If Christ's sole work is to take us to heaven , then we shall be satisfied , naturally and justly satisfied , with the smallest quantity of belief which will ...
... matter - of - fact fashion which is the very opposite of Christian faith . If Christ's sole work is to take us to heaven , then we shall be satisfied , naturally and justly satisfied , with the smallest quantity of belief which will ...
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... matters of real importance . Like all the other forces with which our nature has been endowed , our power of enthusiasm is a strictly limited quantity . It may be diminished by care- lessness ; it may be increased by care ; but it is at ...
... matters of real importance . Like all the other forces with which our nature has been endowed , our power of enthusiasm is a strictly limited quantity . It may be diminished by care- lessness ; it may be increased by care ; but it is at ...
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... matters often ends in great sins . If the young are taught that it is wrong to break the Commandments , and also that it is wrong to play at certain harmless games , what is the result ? Why , this : when they come to discover that the ...
... matters often ends in great sins . If the young are taught that it is wrong to break the Commandments , and also that it is wrong to play at certain harmless games , what is the result ? Why , this : when they come to discover that the ...
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... matters . They surely are not essential to Christianity as Christ understood it . There is a pious sound about the word " vestment ; " but , after all , it is only the Latin equivalent for what , in common speech , we call clothes ...
... matters . They surely are not essential to Christianity as Christ understood it . There is a pious sound about the word " vestment ; " but , after all , it is only the Latin equivalent for what , in common speech , we call clothes ...
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Defects of Modern Christianity: And Other Sermons Preached in St. Peter's ... Alfred Williams Momerie Visualização integral - 1885 |
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Página 199 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Página 34 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Página 351 - Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Página 265 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 245 - It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold : "Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, From heaven's all-gracious King!
Página 350 - Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
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Página 291 - I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
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