 | Arminianism - 1877 - 1004 pages
...has been not only the highest pattern of virtue, bnt the strongest incentive to its practice ; and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be...philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.' — Lecky, History of Morals, vol. ii., p. 9. Finally, Christianity stimulates morality by giving to... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 672 pages
...love ; has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments and conditions .... and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be...philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists." What can be a grander office than that of unfolding the divine and human elements of this beautiful... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - History - 1871 - 552 pages
...fictions have been feebleness ? If Jesus Christ was a great man only, why "has He done more to regenerate mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all the exhortations of moralists " ? Why has He left immeasurably behind Him all other great men who have ever lived ? The historical... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Row - Apologetics - 1872 - 292 pages
...conditions ; has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the highest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence, that it may be...years of active life, has done more to regenerate and soften mankind, than all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all tho exhortations of moralists."... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1879 - 1092 pages
...only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the highest incentive to its practice* and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that...years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. This... | |
 | John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...solennia. firjKeri o.aftftarifnvres, a\\a Kara KvpiaKrjv farjv £iavT(S, says Ignatins, ad lWagnes., c. ix. influence, that it may be truly said that the simple...years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations ,of moralists. This... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...regeneration for which the world is for ever indebted to him. ' The simple record,' as Mr. Lecky says, ' of three short years of active life has done more...and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of the philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. This has, indeed, been the wellspring of whatever... | |
 | Christian life - 1873 - 930 pages
...life, but has been himself the strongest incentive to its imitation; and has exercised upon mankind so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the record of those three brief years of active life has done more to soften, to civilise, and to regenerate... | |
 | Strivings - 1874 - 312 pages
...; has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the highest incentive to its practice ; and has exercised so deep an influence, that it may be...years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind, than, all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all the exhorta tions of moralists... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - Apologetics - 1874 - 312 pages
...; has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the highest incentive to its practice ; and has exercised so deep an influence, that it may be...years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind, than all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all the exhorta tions of moralists... | |
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... the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. 
