A Concise View of the Succession of Sacred Literature: In a Chronological Arrangement of Authors and Their Works, from the Invention of Alphabetical Characters, to the Year of Our Lord 1445, Volume 2 |
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... cause for disappointment in his expecta- tions founded on the title - page , as the Author has no reason to regret the early and late hours he has spent in reading , condensing , and judging of the theology of past ages . In the midst ...
... cause for disappointment in his expecta- tions founded on the title - page , as the Author has no reason to regret the early and late hours he has spent in reading , condensing , and judging of the theology of past ages . In the midst ...
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... causes to err , and as less pledged to the support of indi- vidual power or the maintainance of those errors in creed productive of undue authority in the Rulers , and of ignorance and wandering in the People . Imperfections in the Work ...
... causes to err , and as less pledged to the support of indi- vidual power or the maintainance of those errors in creed productive of undue authority in the Rulers , and of ignorance and wandering in the People . Imperfections in the Work ...
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... cause , progress , and completion , with an ad- mirable description of the difficulty of being freed from the chain ... caused the reader of the Psalm to speak it with a slight flexure of voice so that he might be more like a person ...
... cause , progress , and completion , with an ad- mirable description of the difficulty of being freed from the chain ... caused the reader of the Psalm to speak it with a slight flexure of voice so that he might be more like a person ...
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... cause for thankfulness but not feeling that he can join in on his own account . Against the Academics . — In three books St. Augustine discourses on Happiness , shews where it is not to be found , that it exists alone in the possession ...
... cause for thankfulness but not feeling that he can join in on his own account . Against the Academics . — In three books St. Augustine discourses on Happiness , shews where it is not to be found , that it exists alone in the possession ...
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... cause of the evil we contemplate and com- mit ; -and that happiness or misery depends upon our own choice of either following the eternal Law of God estab- lished in immutable Justice , or acting contrary to what it requires . - 11 ...
... cause of the evil we contemplate and com- mit ; -and that happiness or misery depends upon our own choice of either following the eternal Law of God estab- lished in immutable Justice , or acting contrary to what it requires . - 11 ...
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Page 359 - I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran : I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Page 91 - For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Page 472 - Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Page 381 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 7 - On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Page 503 - Preserver, she will at length look forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners.
Page 394 - God, we must put off the old man with his deeds, and put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him; Col.
Page 64 - It is plain madness to despise so great a power, without which we cannot obtain salvation, or the good things that are promised us. For if no one can enter into the kingdom of heaven, except he be born of water and the Holy Ghost ; and he that eateth not the flesh of the Lord, and drinketh not his blood, is deprived of eternal life ; and all these things are performed by no other...
Page 286 - Phi'e, emprinted in the exempt monastery of Tavestock in Denshyre, by me Dan Thomas Richard Monke of the sayd monastery. To the instant desyer of the ryght worshypful esquyer Mayster Robert Langdon. Anno d. MD XXV. Deo Gracias f.' " Robert Langdon, LL.D., was nephew to Bishop Langdon, a great patron of literature, and I suppose had imbibed something of his uncle's spirit.
Page 273 - It was begun about the end of the fifth, or the beginning of the sixth century...