Discourses on Various SubjectsCharles Fox, 1835 - 299 páginas |
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... perfection ; a power to unlock the retired , the deeper , and nobler sensibilities of men's minds , to draw out the hoarded and hidden virtues of the soul , to open the fountains which custom and ceremony and reserve have sealed up : it ...
... perfection ; a power to unlock the retired , the deeper , and nobler sensibilities of men's minds , to draw out the hoarded and hidden virtues of the soul , to open the fountains which custom and ceremony and reserve have sealed up : it ...
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... perfection of character . This will always be found , I believe , to be a late stage in the progress of religious worth from its first beginnings . It is comparatively easy to be one thing and that alone ; to be all zeal , or all ...
... perfection of character . This will always be found , I believe , to be a late stage in the progress of religious worth from its first beginnings . It is comparatively easy to be one thing and that alone ; to be all zeal , or all ...
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... perfection is sum- med up in this one attribute , " God is love . " This is the very glory of God . For when an ancient servant desired to 66 see his glory , " the answer to the prayer was , that he caused all his goodness to pass ...
... perfection is sum- med up in this one attribute , " God is love . " This is the very glory of God . For when an ancient servant desired to 66 see his glory , " the answer to the prayer was , that he caused all his goodness to pass ...
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... perfection . I say , however low . And grant now that the moral conceptions of a man are very low ; yet if they are the highest he has , is there anything higher that he can follow ? Will it be said there are the Scriptures ? But the ...
... perfection . I say , however low . And grant now that the moral conceptions of a man are very low ; yet if they are the highest he has , is there anything higher that he can follow ? Will it be said there are the Scriptures ? But the ...
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... perfection of God . They do not identify that perfection with all that is glorious , beautiful , lovely , admirable , and enrapturing in nature , in character , in life , in existence . God's glory they conceive to be something so ...
... perfection of God . They do not identify that perfection with all that is glorious , beautiful , lovely , admirable , and enrapturing in nature , in character , in life , in existence . God's glory they conceive to be something so ...
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admiration affections amidst appeal art thou awaken awful beauty believe blessed breath brethren cern character children of men Christian cold conscience creature dark death DISCOURSE divine divine grace doubt duty dwell earth earthly eternity evil faith fear feeling forms friends future glorious glory God's gospel habit happiness heaven holy holy record honour hope human heart human nature immortal indifference indulgence infinite interests irreligion Jesus language light ligion live look meditation ment mercy mind misery moral moral universe ness never noble objects pass passions perhaps piety pity pleasure prayer principle racter rational reason religion religious sensibility repeat retribution scene selfish sense sensual sinful sinner sleep solemn sorrow soul speak spirit strong sublime suffer sure teaching thee things thou thou art mind thought timate tion toil true truth virtue voice whole wisdom words worldly wrong