Teachings of experience; or, Lessons I have learned on my way through life. Author's edE.W. Allen, 1885 - 300 pages |
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... A father that should be tenderly indulgent to one of his children , and rigidly severe to the rest , would be regarded with indignation . The doctrine of Divine partiality shocks both 14 Teachings of Experience ; or ,
... A father that should be tenderly indulgent to one of his children , and rigidly severe to the rest , would be regarded with indignation . The doctrine of Divine partiality shocks both 14 Teachings of Experience ; or ,
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Joseph Barker. with indignation . The doctrine of Divine partiality shocks both our reason and our moral feelings . And the sentiment advanced is not Scriptural . The Bible says nothing about dooming the rebellious angels to perdition ...
Joseph Barker. with indignation . The doctrine of Divine partiality shocks both our reason and our moral feelings . And the sentiment advanced is not Scriptural . The Bible says nothing about dooming the rebellious angels to perdition ...
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Joseph Barker. religion but in common words . They cannot think there can be Divine truth but in the old phrases . To discon- tinue them , therefore , and use others , would in their view , be to become heretics or infidels . In truth ...
Joseph Barker. religion but in common words . They cannot think there can be Divine truth but in the old phrases . To discon- tinue them , therefore , and use others , would in their view , be to become heretics or infidels . In truth ...
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... Divine attributes and government , that he seems to delight in representing the Deity as a dreadful king of furies , whose dominion is overshadowed with vengeance , whose music is the cries of victims , and whose glory re- quires to be ...
... Divine attributes and government , that he seems to delight in representing the Deity as a dreadful king of furies , whose dominion is overshadowed with vengeance , whose music is the cries of victims , and whose glory re- quires to be ...
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... Divine help to enable him to do it . He read them till all the plainer and more practical portions were safely lodged in his memory , and deeply engraven on his heart . He read them till their teachings became a part of his very nature ...
... Divine help to enable him to do it . He read them till all the plainer and more practical portions were safely lodged in his memory , and deeply engraven on his heart . He read them till their teachings became a part of his very nature ...
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Page 207 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 211 - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Page 253 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 32 - Ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price ; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Page 285 - It was my guide, my light, my all, it bade my dark forebodings cease ; and through the storm and danger's thrall it led me to the port of peace. Now safely moored — my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, for ever and for evermore, the Star— The Star of Bethlehem...
Page 71 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods carne, and the winds blew and beat opon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 241 - In suffering be Thy love my peace, In weakness be Thy love my power ; And when the storms of life shall cease, Jesus, in that important hour, In death as life be Thou my Guide, And save me, who for me hast died ! 235 7,8,7.
Page 110 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 31 - will render to every man according to his deeds : to them who by patient continuance in welldoing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life ; but unto them who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish...
Page 103 - It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest...