The Christian Teacher, Volume 3J. Green, 1841 - Christianity |
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... reason , the enlight- ened philosophy of instructed man . The work is of great compass , and we can only glance at its contents . For the first time in this country Ecclesiastical His- tory has been made acceptable to general readers ...
... reason , the enlight- ened philosophy of instructed man . The work is of great compass , and we can only glance at its contents . For the first time in this country Ecclesiastical His- tory has been made acceptable to general readers ...
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... reason is that they are not open to a wide range of influences . Sternness of temper accompanies contracted sympathies ; it is connected with narrowness of thought , and John was narrow . thus by nature likely to be inflexible in his ...
... reason is that they are not open to a wide range of influences . Sternness of temper accompanies contracted sympathies ; it is connected with narrowness of thought , and John was narrow . thus by nature likely to be inflexible in his ...
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... reason , and upturn the grounds and pervert the practice of morality itself , appear from the keen exposures which we have of them from the lips of Socrates and the pens of his disciples , to have availed themselves of the educational ...
... reason , and upturn the grounds and pervert the practice of morality itself , appear from the keen exposures which we have of them from the lips of Socrates and the pens of his disciples , to have availed themselves of the educational ...
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... reason , which God has given to him , before other men , without inquiry , or having any rational foundation for belief . As the Psalmist says , " It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man . " There is no command ...
... reason , which God has given to him , before other men , without inquiry , or having any rational foundation for belief . As the Psalmist says , " It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man . " There is no command ...
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... reason before adopting any reli- gion whatever ; and before the process of reasoning is com- menced , the propositions that have been stated must be ad- mitted by every one endowed with moral feeling ; because if they be not admitted ...
... reason before adopting any reli- gion whatever ; and before the process of reasoning is com- menced , the propositions that have been stated must be ad- mitted by every one endowed with moral feeling ; because if they be not admitted ...
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Popular passages
Page 107 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Page 49 - Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me,
Page 103 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, " Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them ;" thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams...
Page 8 - Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard : the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up...
Page 99 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 207 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
Page 56 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 55 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 90 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 57 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.