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... senses will be changed , the very foundations of the earth broken up , all present hindrances removed . All the channels of thought and perception must be different , before such a thing can be . And here we seem to have arrived at the ...
... senses will be changed , the very foundations of the earth broken up , all present hindrances removed . All the channels of thought and perception must be different , before such a thing can be . And here we seem to have arrived at the ...
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... nection with the things of sense and of this world . We shall never lose it . As long as we are in this state , it will be a strange thing to us that the Lord should come and put an end to this state , and break up IN ADVENT . 9.
... nection with the things of sense and of this world . We shall never lose it . As long as we are in this state , it will be a strange thing to us that the Lord should come and put an end to this state , and break up IN ADVENT . 9.
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... senses and faculties ? What can it be but this , that it needs so much the more to be thought upon , to be made matter of earnest meditation , to be surveyed in all its great bearings on his thoughts and desires , on his affections and ...
... senses and faculties ? What can it be but this , that it needs so much the more to be thought upon , to be made matter of earnest meditation , to be surveyed in all its great bearings on his thoughts and desires , on his affections and ...
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Henry Alford. conjunction of natural objects , some affection of some one of our senses , when we never expected it , bring back to us every word which passed in that trifling conversation . Where was that all these years ? Clearly it ...
Henry Alford. conjunction of natural objects , some affection of some one of our senses , when we never expected it , bring back to us every word which passed in that trifling conversation . Where was that all these years ? Clearly it ...
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... senses , but by direct revelation . Thus it was that St. Paul too , as he expressly tells us , received from the Lord the Gospel history , which he himself had never witnessed ; and we are led to ex- pect something of this kind by that ...
... senses , but by direct revelation . Thus it was that St. Paul too , as he expressly tells us , received from the Lord the Gospel history , which he himself had never witnessed ; and we are led to ex- pect something of this kind by that ...
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