 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
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 806 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,...infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to maturo 'ago. Meu are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the author of nature appears deliberate... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1872 - 386 pages
...existence is not only successive, as it must be of necessity, but ono state of our life and being is appointed by God to be a preparation for another ;...impatient, and for precipitating things : but the Author of ualurr Appears deliberate throughout his opfirations ; accomplishing fcis natural ends by slow successive... | |
 | J. Butler - 1873 - 364 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... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - Christianity - 1873 - 398 pages
...being is appointed by God to be a preparation for another, and 1 St. Paul and Protestantism, p. 180. that to be the means of attaining to another succeeding...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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1875 - 408 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.* * [" We shall find that all the great developments of the moral being have resulted in the advantage... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 236 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,...Men are impatient and for precipitating things ; but ihe author of nature appears deliberate throughout his operations, accomplishing his natural ends by... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Protestantism - 1875 - 240 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,...childhood to youth, youth to mature age. Men are impatient L 2 and for precipitating things ; but the author of nature appears deliberate throughout his operations,... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - God - 1875 - 426 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... | |
 | Joseph Pulliblank - 1876 - 474 pages
...of the slow growth of trees and plants, and of the bodies of men and animals, and then he says : ' Men are impatient and for precipitating things ; but...deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His designs by slow, successive steps.' Let us learn, then, both from the Israelites and from Moses, not... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1897 - 546 pages
...that it is the appointed method of Him who, while ' men are impatient and for precipitating things,' ' appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps.' ' We have read with great interest the comments on Article XXII. The condemnation by the Council of... | |
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