The Evidence of Christian Experience: Being the Ely Lectures for 1890C. Scribner's Sons, 1890 - 473 páginas |
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... highest importance . God , duty , and immortality are the invincible pillars upon which the whole super- structure of religion rests . Moreover , deism was but the logical consequence of the rationalistic tendency of the prevalent ...
... highest importance . God , duty , and immortality are the invincible pillars upon which the whole super- structure of religion rests . Moreover , deism was but the logical consequence of the rationalistic tendency of the prevalent ...
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... highest ad- miration . As has already been intimated , it repre- sented the whole history of mankind as a continuous revelation of God . The ethnic religions exhibit the lower stages in the process , giving under imperfect forms of ...
... highest ad- miration . As has already been intimated , it repre- sented the whole history of mankind as a continuous revelation of God . The ethnic religions exhibit the lower stages in the process , giving under imperfect forms of ...
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... highest range of truth and it disappears from their vision . Many of the scientific men whose utterances have done . most to shake the confidence of the masses in Chris- tianity , have not been unkindly disposed toward relig- ion ...
... highest range of truth and it disappears from their vision . Many of the scientific men whose utterances have done . most to shake the confidence of the masses in Chris- tianity , have not been unkindly disposed toward relig- ion ...
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... highest , from animism to Christianity , which differ- ences the religious sphere from every other department of human experience ? What is the essential fact that gives religious faith its distinctive character ? Not the system of ...
... highest , from animism to Christianity , which differ- ences the religious sphere from every other department of human experience ? What is the essential fact that gives religious faith its distinctive character ? Not the system of ...
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... highest perfection . But this argument , in the old form , is at the bottom as deistical as the others , and we have lived to see it fall into general disrepute under the influence of the scientific theory of evolution , with its all ...
... highest perfection . But this argument , in the old form , is at the bottom as deistical as the others , and we have lived to see it fall into general disrepute under the influence of the scientific theory of evolution , with its all ...
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Página 417 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.
Página 58 - The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that 'this is I:' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and 'me,' And finds 'I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Página 334 - And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Página 438 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess without confession that His 'glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our capacity and reach.
Página 127 - Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience.
Página 226 - God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Página 207 - MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Página 49 - God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness : because that which may be known of God is manifest in them ; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead : so that they are without excuse.
Página 389 - This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope ; * but an infallible assurance of faith, founded upon the divine truth of the promises of sal vation,' the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made," the testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God : ' which Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption.
Página 70 - Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.