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Page ix
... religious opinion abounds in evidence that the most systematic attempts have been made by professors of Christianity to lower the standard of its doctrines ; and this in the face of truth , so fully and implicitly set forth , that the ...
... religious opinion abounds in evidence that the most systematic attempts have been made by professors of Christianity to lower the standard of its doctrines ; and this in the face of truth , so fully and implicitly set forth , that the ...
Page xii
... religion is a system of mysteries ; and he who should determine to spend his life in the in- vestigation of the abstrusest principles of nature , would have a far better hope of success in making discoveries , than he who should sit ...
... religion is a system of mysteries ; and he who should determine to spend his life in the in- vestigation of the abstrusest principles of nature , would have a far better hope of success in making discoveries , than he who should sit ...
Page xviii
... religion ? And in what frame of mind are we most likely to acknowledge it , so as to make the acknowledgment a religious exercise ? The answer to the former of these questions is , in many essential points , the same as it would be were ...
... religion ? And in what frame of mind are we most likely to acknowledge it , so as to make the acknowledgment a religious exercise ? The answer to the former of these questions is , in many essential points , the same as it would be were ...
Page xx
... religious character of England has been formed , did at one period favour the tem- porary suppression of that species of Christian doctrine on which our earlier divines so eloquently and powerfully descanted . Enthusiasm does more ...
... religious character of England has been formed , did at one period favour the tem- porary suppression of that species of Christian doctrine on which our earlier divines so eloquently and powerfully descanted . Enthusiasm does more ...
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... Religion is the Illumination of the Holy Ghost , shining into the Hearts of those who do not close them against its entrance . The opinion of Dr. Gloucester Ridley cited 5. The true and only convincing Evidence of the Reli- gion of ...
... Religion is the Illumination of the Holy Ghost , shining into the Hearts of those who do not close them against its entrance . The opinion of Dr. Gloucester Ridley cited 5. The true and only convincing Evidence of the Reli- gion of ...
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Page 112 - No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him ; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Page 39 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 304 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 14 - The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree ; him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are his witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Page 80 - Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Page 125 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 193 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 222 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Page 274 - Let thy Fatherly hand, we beseech thee, ever be over them : Let thy HOLY SPIRIT ever be with them : and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy word, that in the end they may obtain everlasting life...
Page 246 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.