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... blind obedience . Upon its own merits let it stand or fall . My object in thus briefly addressing you , is not to convince , but to direct you to a method by which you may convince yourselves . With this design 1 shall take nothing for ...
... blind obedience . Upon its own merits let it stand or fall . My object in thus briefly addressing you , is not to convince , but to direct you to a method by which you may convince yourselves . With this design 1 shall take nothing for ...
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... blind guide ; can you tell us how it comes to pass that she should , in your indivi- dual case , prove so wonderfully clear - sighted ? May not the ideas of God which reason has taught you , be just as wide of the truth as her ...
... blind guide ; can you tell us how it comes to pass that she should , in your indivi- dual case , prove so wonderfully clear - sighted ? May not the ideas of God which reason has taught you , be just as wide of the truth as her ...
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... blind man adapted to decide upon the merits of a picture . Even so is human reason utterly incapable of discerning the beauty and glory of the sacred page , until the same Almighty Power which created that reason , is pleased to shine ...
... blind man adapted to decide upon the merits of a picture . Even so is human reason utterly incapable of discerning the beauty and glory of the sacred page , until the same Almighty Power which created that reason , is pleased to shine ...
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... blind by a way that they knew not ; to make darkness light before them , and crooked paths straight . " 1 From a very early age , my mind had been deeply impressed with a sense of the importance . of religion . I knew something , not ...
... blind by a way that they knew not ; to make darkness light before them , and crooked paths straight . " 1 From a very early age , my mind had been deeply impressed with a sense of the importance . of religion . I knew something , not ...
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... curiously con- trived machinery were the work of a blind chance , may conclude that the character of Jesus was traced by a mere mortal pen . But those who attribute any thing to a divine power , must THE TEST OF TRUTH . 101.
... curiously con- trived machinery were the work of a blind chance , may conclude that the character of Jesus was traced by a mere mortal pen . But those who attribute any thing to a divine power , must THE TEST OF TRUTH . 101.
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2d Edit 5th Edit able absurd appear ATLAS Author beauty believe Bible blind BOTANY capable character of Jesus Christianity cloth conviction creatures CRYPTOGAMIA darkness declension Deist desire despise divine endeavour Engravings experience Father favour Fcap feel foolish Foolscap 8vo Gazette give glory God's heart HISTORY Holy Spirit hope human idea ignorance Illustrations infinite intellect Isaiah Jesus Christ judgment justice knowledge large vol light LL.D Longman Lord LUCY AIKIN Maker mankind Maps means MEMOIRS mercy mind nature notions object offer perceive perfect Plates PLEIAD Portrait post 8vo pray prayer promise proof prove Psalm rational reason refuse reject religion revealed ROBERT SOUTHEY Royal Russia Scrip Scriptures seek sense SHARON TURNER soul STOKE FLEMING suppose teach TEST OF TRUTH THAMES DITTON Thee things Thou thought tion tures understanding unto Valuable Standard wants wisdom word worth knowing
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Page 120 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
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