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... God by immediate revela- tion that , for his information in the Christian knowledge , and the mysteries and depths of the dispensation of God by Jesus Christ , God him- self had condescended to be his instructor and teacher : that he ...
... God by immediate revela- tion that , for his information in the Christian knowledge , and the mysteries and depths of the dispensation of God by Jesus Christ , God him- self had condescended to be his instructor and teacher : that he ...
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... God , he especially exalted the love which God shewed to man , in justifying him by faith in Jesus Christ ; and returned God thanks in particular for having called him to the knowledge of that Divine Saviour . About two months before ...
... God , he especially exalted the love which God shewed to man , in justifying him by faith in Jesus Christ ; and returned God thanks in particular for having called him to the knowledge of that Divine Saviour . About two months before ...
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... God . In short , we cannot conceive either of space or time otherwise than as necessarily existing ; this Being therefore , on whom all others depend , must certainly exist by the same necessity of nature ; consequently , wherever space ...
... God . In short , we cannot conceive either of space or time otherwise than as necessarily existing ; this Being therefore , on whom all others depend , must certainly exist by the same necessity of nature ; consequently , wherever space ...
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... God and his Attributes • 59 The Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation · The Providence of God The Worship of God Advantages of Revelation above Natural Reason Excellency of the Christian Institution Dignity of the Scripture Language ...
... God and his Attributes • 59 The Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation · The Providence of God The Worship of God Advantages of Revelation above Natural Reason Excellency of the Christian Institution Dignity of the Scripture Language ...
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... God with a clear and perfect view , and of possessing him with- out a covering or veil , the argument would bear some colour , when men should allege , that none of the things about them do indeed afford this pre- tended evidence and ...
... God with a clear and perfect view , and of possessing him with- out a covering or veil , the argument would bear some colour , when men should allege , that none of the things about them do indeed afford this pre- tended evidence and ...
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Page 154 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 203 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 182 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 205 - ... there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ! or where ! — This world was made for Caesar.
Page 73 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 157 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Page 127 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: they shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 141 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 127 - When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did he see it and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 85 - Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards: Which if it be probable, we have reason then to be persuaded^ that there are far more Species of Creatures above us, than there are beneath; we being in degrees of perfection, much more remote from the infinite Being of God, than we are from the lowest state of Being, and that which approaches nearest to nothing.