The Permanence of Christianity: Considered in Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year MDCCCLXXII on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton |
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... consequence that reason is no judge of what is offered to us as being of divine revelation . For this would be to infer that we are unable to judge of anything because we are unable to judge of all things . " - Butler , Analogy , Pt ...
... consequence that reason is no judge of what is offered to us as being of divine revelation . For this would be to infer that we are unable to judge of anything because we are unable to judge of all things . " - Butler , Analogy , Pt ...
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... stage of culture . When the nations in the course of their progress had passed beyond this , the necessary consequence was a dissevering of the ledge . faiths of Brahma or of Buddha should linger in the LECT . I. ] 29 OF RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS .
... stage of culture . When the nations in the course of their progress had passed beyond this , the necessary consequence was a dissevering of the ledge . faiths of Brahma or of Buddha should linger in the LECT . I. ] 29 OF RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS .
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... consequence of a Divine government of the world , and which supplements His more special manifes- This will tations . Those improvements , however , in the treated . condition and destinies of man which are due to the particular ...
... consequence of a Divine government of the world , and which supplements His more special manifes- This will tations . Those improvements , however , in the treated . condition and destinies of man which are due to the particular ...
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... consequences very commonly attri- buted to Christianity in the history of mankind . are really due to an advance in civilization . The Church of Christ may seem to have done some good in things where her interest did not happen to clash ...
... consequences very commonly attri- buted to Christianity in the history of mankind . are really due to an advance in civilization . The Church of Christ may seem to have done some good in things where her interest did not happen to clash ...
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... consequences on social law and morality . See some good remarks in Christian Remem- brancer , No. CXXXI . , p . 240 . the perma- power of ity and genuine facts of the external world , the ingredients of veneration LECT . II . ] PRogress ...
... consequences on social law and morality . See some good remarks in Christian Remem- brancer , No. CXXXI . , p . 240 . the perma- power of ity and genuine facts of the external world , the ingredients of veneration LECT . II . ] PRogress ...
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Page 292 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips. Like man new made.
Page 57 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 21 - ... or the wisest for the multitude's sake, were not ready to give passage rather to that which is popular and superficial, than to that which is substantial and profound; for the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid.
Page 180 - To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.
Page 249 - The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them : for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Page 39 - ... the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.
Page 198 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost tea.ch.eth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Page v - Printing-House, between the hours of " ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach " eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at " St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the " last month in Lent Term, and the end of the third week
Page v - ... and necessary deductions made) that he pay all the remainder to the endowment of eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, to be established for ever in the said University...
Page 39 - If thou ask to what height man has carried it in this manner, look on our divinest Symbol : on Jesus of Nazareth, and his Life, and his Biography, and what followed therefrom. Higher has the human Thought not yet reached : this is Christianity and Christendom ; a Symbol of quite perennial, infinite character ; whose significance will ever demand to be anew inquired into, and anew made manifest.