 Our existence is not only successive, as it must be of necessity, but one state of our life and being is appointed by God to be a preparation for another ; and that, to be the means of attaining to another succeeding one : Infancy to childhood ; childhood...  An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - Page 114by John Henry Newman - 1846 - 453 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1864 - 566 pages
...existence is not only successive, as it must be of necessity; but one state of our life and being is appointed by God to be a preparation for another,...there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, fcnm -the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, hi order to the... | |
 | Charles Henry Craufurd - 1866 - 284 pages
...Deity as in nature, so also in grace, are, for the most part, gradual. "Men," says Bishop Butler, " are impatient and for precipitating things, but the...accomplishing his natural ends by slow, successive steps." And the works of Grace are analogous to those of Nature. As in the growth of corn, there comes " first... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1867 - 728 pages
...existence is not only successive, as it must be of necessity, but one state of our life and being is appointed by God to be a preparation for another, and that to be the uieana of attaining to another succeeding one ; infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - Theological anthropology - 1868 - 400 pages
...nature are made by little degrees and by slow advances, so it may be with the scheme of redemption. Men are impatient and for precipitating things, but...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. This being the case the fault lies with those who reason from our knowledge of a part to a knowledge... | |
 | William Lee - Faith - 1868 - 266 pages
...is human life. . . . Our existence is not only successive, but one state <>f our life and being is appointed by God to be a preparation for another, and that to be the means of attaming to another succeeding one-infancy to duldhood, erate throughout His operations ; accomplishing... | |
 | George Frederick Maclear - 1868 - 246 pages
...redeemed family of man. Slowly indeed, as we count slowness1, but yet surely He is directing all things 1 "Men are impatient, and for precipitating things:...the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout Hia operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps. And there is a plan of things... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1869 - 372 pages
...existence is not only successive, as. it must be of necessity; but one state of our life and being is appointed by God, to be a preparation for another;...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps.0 And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various... | |
 | Bible - 1869 - 404 pages
...invulnerable. iv. 9 ; 1 S. Pet. iii. 13, 14. — Charron. The end is not yet. Men are impatient, and are for precipitating things ; but the Author of Nature...slow successive steps. And there is a plan of things, before laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length... | |
 | Bible - 1869 - 384 pages
...continual succession of animals vegetables, and creatures. Acts xvii. 28. — Dr. Dodd. First the blade. Men are impatient and for precipitating things ; but...accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps. Isa. lv. 8 ; Hab. ii. 3.— Bp. Butler. God, being a God of order, doth not work ordinarily, but in... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1870 - 234 pages
...existence is not only successive, as it must be of necessity, but one state of our life and being is appointed by God to be a preparation for another,...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence, God operates in the very same manner as in the dispensation... | |
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