The credentials of conscience: a few reasons for the popularity of [sir J.R. Seeley's] 'Ecce homo', and a few words about Christianity [by M. Hall].1868 |
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... seek to make others virtuous and beneficent . Love for univer- sal man is supposed to have animated the hearts of Christ , of His disciples , and of their converts as an enthusiasm ; and most delightfully does “ Ecce Homo " dwell on the ...
... seek to make others virtuous and beneficent . Love for univer- sal man is supposed to have animated the hearts of Christ , of His disciples , and of their converts as an enthusiasm ; and most delightfully does “ Ecce Homo " dwell on the ...
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... seeking ends in " Vanity of vanities ! " or , " Father , I have sinned . " Not so does the beneficent moralist desire that man should escape from individual self - concern and merge himself in the whole . Rather by those attractions ...
... seeking ends in " Vanity of vanities ! " or , " Father , I have sinned . " Not so does the beneficent moralist desire that man should escape from individual self - concern and merge himself in the whole . Rather by those attractions ...
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... seeking for authority either in the Church or in the Bible . The one is regarded as holding direct from Christ by ... seek after a sign , " for that both are viewed as miraculous in their powers and preservation . The trust in both is ...
... seeking for authority either in the Church or in the Bible . The one is regarded as holding direct from Christ by ... seek after a sign , " for that both are viewed as miraculous in their powers and preservation . The trust in both is ...
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... seek improvement of the mind , as well as of the heart ; condemn repression of doubt as well as ungoverned passion ; and hold the stifling or the denial of conviction to be mortal sin . Before discussing Christ's credentials in " Ecce ...
... seek improvement of the mind , as well as of the heart ; condemn repression of doubt as well as ungoverned passion ; and hold the stifling or the denial of conviction to be mortal sin . Before discussing Christ's credentials in " Ecce ...
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... seek judgment , relieve the oppressed . " To Isaiah , Paul ascribes a conception of universal guidance , ever denied by Formalists , but cherished by the Hebrew Prophets as hope and desire that " walls of partition " between nations ...
... seek judgment , relieve the oppressed . " To Isaiah , Paul ascribes a conception of universal guidance , ever denied by Formalists , but cherished by the Hebrew Prophets as hope and desire that " walls of partition " between nations ...
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Page 312 - Not the labours of my hands can fulfil thy law's demands; could my zeal no respite know, could my tears for ever flow, all for sin could not atone: thou must save, and thou alone.
Page 238 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 281 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 289 - Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, And his arm shall rule for him : Behold, his reward is with him, And his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with his arm, And carry them in his bosom, And shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 192 - My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Page 311 - I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Page 167 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 345 - And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many: and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Page 245 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the conquer'd years To one that with us works, and trust, With faith that comes of self-control, The truths that never can be proved Until we close with all we loved, And all we flow from...
Page 249 - Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first Love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a glimpse of his bright face ; When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity...