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... inner eye and ear , if undiseased , discern at once in di- vine things their own best witness and authority . In the original structure of the soul , there is an unwritten revelation which accords with the external revelation of ...
... inner eye and ear , if undiseased , discern at once in di- vine things their own best witness and authority . In the original structure of the soul , there is an unwritten revelation which accords with the external revelation of ...
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... inner eye and ear , if endowed with all the sound- ness and delicate susceptibility of health , at once to recognise the beauty and harmony of divine things ; but the vision of the soul is blurred , the spiritual ear has lost its ...
... inner eye and ear , if endowed with all the sound- ness and delicate susceptibility of health , at once to recognise the beauty and harmony of divine things ; but the vision of the soul is blurred , the spiritual ear has lost its ...
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... inner eye and ear acquire by exercise a more and more delicate acuteness and ac- curacy of perception ; until at last , as the result of its long converse with truth , the soul learns to recognise it with an almost instinctive sureness ...
... inner eye and ear acquire by exercise a more and more delicate acuteness and ac- curacy of perception ; until at last , as the result of its long converse with truth , the soul learns to recognise it with an almost instinctive sureness ...
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... inner nature the consciousness of falling beneath himself ; you cannot blot out from his mind the latent reminiscence of a nobler and better self which he might have been , and which to have lost is guilt and wretchedness . So that ...
... inner nature the consciousness of falling beneath himself ; you cannot blot out from his mind the latent reminiscence of a nobler and better self which he might have been , and which to have lost is guilt and wretchedness . So that ...
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... inner consciousness with all the painful reality of a lost and abandoned good . If the life of Christ were an ideal of excellence altogether foreign to us , the shame of the convicted conscience would lose half its bitterness . Did we ...
... inner consciousness with all the painful reality of a lost and abandoned good . If the life of Christ were an ideal of excellence altogether foreign to us , the shame of the convicted conscience would lose half its bitterness . Did we ...
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amidst awful beauty become behold blessings breast breathe character Christ Christian Church CHURCH OF SCOTLAND common conscience consciousness death deeper demnation divine truth doctrine earnest earth earthly equipoise eternal evil Father gible glorious glory God's guilt hand happiness hath heart heaven heavenly holy human Infinite influence inner intel intellectual invisible irreligion Jesus JOHN CAIRD Judaism light living Lord lost man's manifestation manifestation of God material mighty heart mind moral mysterious nature ness never noble nobler objects outward pain passing perceive person possess prayer present principle prosperity pure purity reflection religion religious render repose rest ritual ROBERT FLINT secret secular selfish sense SERMON sight sinful Socinian sorrow soul soul's spirit strange sufferings things thought and feeling tion toil true unconscious unholy desires universe University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW unto vision wealth whilst words worldly