The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the FallMacmillan, 1855 - 188 páginas |
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... higher truths of the moral universe . No finite being can fully comprehend the nature of God . It is a mystery too deep for us to fathom in all its real profundity . He " dwelleth in light which no man can approach unto , whom no man ...
... higher truths of the moral universe . No finite being can fully comprehend the nature of God . It is a mystery too deep for us to fathom in all its real profundity . He " dwelleth in light which no man can approach unto , whom no man ...
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... higher Cause will still be required to account for his existence . Reason , when once it wakes to the simple truth , that every effect requires a cause , leads us upward , with swift and irre- sistible progress , to the feet of the ...
... higher Cause will still be required to account for his existence . Reason , when once it wakes to the simple truth , that every effect requires a cause , leads us upward , with swift and irre- sistible progress , to the feet of the ...
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... higher than man , and unseen by our bodily eyes , and rest on these , as the agents in all the events of Providence and the changes of the outward world . These secondary powers may be many in number , as well as limited and imperfect ...
... higher than man , and unseen by our bodily eyes , and rest on these , as the agents in all the events of Providence and the changes of the outward world . These secondary powers may be many in number , as well as limited and imperfect ...
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... higher powers , it may be a truth . But it is not the truth to which reason conducts the patient inquirer . It stops short at the foot of the mount . And hence , in an age of active thought , such a system of Polytheism must either sink ...
... higher powers , it may be a truth . But it is not the truth to which reason conducts the patient inquirer . It stops short at the foot of the mount . And hence , in an age of active thought , such a system of Polytheism must either sink ...
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... higher sphere than the common arrangements of Providence , in the secret operations of Divine grace . It is clear that many creatures are really sunk in a fearful depth of moral evil . It is also evident that every gift of active powers ...
... higher sphere than the common arrangements of Providence , in the secret operations of Divine grace . It is clear that many creatures are really sunk in a fearful depth of moral evil . It is also evident that every gift of active powers ...
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The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the Fall ... Thomas Rawson Birks Visualização integral - 1876 |
The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the Fall Thomas Rawson Birks Visualização integral - 1855 |
The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the Fall ... Thomas Rawson Birks Visualização integral - 1876 |
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abyss Adam Adam's Almighty angels arbitrary awful benevolence BERNARD DRAKE bestowed blessing BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT Cambridge cause Christian cloth CO.'S PUBLICATIONS conceive conscience consciousness constitution covenant created creation creature crime Crown 8vo dark death Divine grace Divine wisdom doctrine essential eternal existence fact faculties fall fallen fatal Fcap federal headship Fellow of St flesh free agents gift glory God's grace guilt happiness heaven higher holy human infer Infinite Wisdom instincts JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO John's College judgment knowledge late Fellow light Lord M.A. Fellow MACMILLAN & CO.'S mankind Mechanical Philosophy misery moral agents moral evil moral universe mutability mysterious nature obedience Omnipotence Original Sin Paradise parent perfect possible posterity probation pure reason redemption result revealed ruin Scripture Second Edition sentence sinless sinless perfection soul sovereign spirit Supreme temptation tempted Tempter transgression tree Trinity College true truth unfallen universe University of Cambridge whole race word
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Página 53 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Página 164 - Such an improvement of the doctrine of the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent...
Página 33 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Página 158 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Página 79 - And in Eph. vi. 12, the same bad influence is referred to under the names of " principalities, and powers," " the rulers of the darkness of this world," and " spiritual wickedness in high places.
Página 68 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Página 81 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...
Página 183 - Prize Essay for 1877. 8vo. &r. 6d. SMITH— Works by the Rev. BARNARD SMITH, MA, Rector of Glaston, Rutland, late Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA, in their Principles and Application ; with numerous systematically arranged Examples taken from the Cambridge Examination Papers, with especial reference to the Ordinary Examination for the BA Degree.
Página 68 - sdained subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burdensome still paying, still to owe...
Página 84 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...