On the Proofs of Divine Power and Wisdom: Derived from the Study of Astronomy; and on the Evidence, Doctrines, and Precepts of Revealed Religion |
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... mind with which revealed religion should be studied ...... .p . 135 . LECTURE VII . The Rectitude , Purity , Integrity , and Truth of Revealed Religion . PSALM xix . 8 , 9. The statutes of the Lord are right ; rejoicing the heart . The ...
... mind with which revealed religion should be studied ...... .p . 135 . LECTURE VII . The Rectitude , Purity , Integrity , and Truth of Revealed Religion . PSALM xix . 8 , 9. The statutes of the Lord are right ; rejoicing the heart . The ...
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... mind . The most unlearned and unen- lightened have gazed with wonder upon so glo- rious a display of brilliant objects placed far beyond the control of man , and moving serene- ly through the skies . Uneducated tribes or half cultivated ...
... mind . The most unlearned and unen- lightened have gazed with wonder upon so glo- rious a display of brilliant objects placed far beyond the control of man , and moving serene- ly through the skies . Uneducated tribes or half cultivated ...
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... mind on to the idea of space without limit . Whilst men , in all ages , and under differ- ent degrees of mental cultivation , have thus turned their attention to the study of the hea- vens , their researches have led them into two ...
... mind on to the idea of space without limit . Whilst men , in all ages , and under differ- ent degrees of mental cultivation , have thus turned their attention to the study of the hea- vens , their researches have led them into two ...
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... mind long habi- tuated to its peculiar processes of demonstration is apt to feel dissatisfied with conclusions de- rived from moral evidence ; upon which it is still necessary to determine and to act , in mat- ters of the greatest ...
... mind long habi- tuated to its peculiar processes of demonstration is apt to feel dissatisfied with conclusions de- rived from moral evidence ; upon which it is still necessary to determine and to act , in mat- ters of the greatest ...
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... mind , which has successfully en- deavoured to understand how all things are ordered " in measure and number and weight , " and to explain the mechanical phenomena of the heavens , has not always exhibited that hu- mility which becomes ...
... mind , which has successfully en- deavoured to understand how all things are ordered " in measure and number and weight , " and to explain the mechanical phenomena of the heavens , has not always exhibited that hu- mility which becomes ...
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Page xxvii - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Page 168 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured ; coals were kindled by it.
Page 318 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass, " for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 171 - And immediately I was in the Spirit : and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page xvi - Day unto day uttereth speech,- and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 161 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 284 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 169 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly...
Page 251 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness...
Page 45 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted civ away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.