 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 - Religion - 2005 - 401 pages
...existence is not only successive, as it mast 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 ndvantage... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...System, not a fixt but a progressive one', writes Joseph Butler in The Analogy of Religion (1736). 'The Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout...And there is a Plan of things beforehand laid out . . . Thus, in the daily Course of natural Providence, God operates in the very same Manner, as in... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1891 - 1022 pages
...existence is not only successive, as it of necessity must be, 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 for precipitating things; but the Author of nature appears deliberate throughout his operations, accomplishing... | |
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