The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1832 |
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... heart ; and that the disproportionate direction of our talents , no less than of our affections , to the things of this world , should disqualify us for faith . What is sufficient sacred knowledge for an uneducated person , becomes ...
... heart ; and that the disproportionate direction of our talents , no less than of our affections , to the things of this world , should disqualify us for faith . What is sufficient sacred knowledge for an uneducated person , becomes ...
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... heart , than to aid in wakening the attention of the thoughtful and pious to the measures demanded by the present moral crisis . We commenced this article with the observation , that , next to theology , political science is in the most ...
... heart , than to aid in wakening the attention of the thoughtful and pious to the measures demanded by the present moral crisis . We commenced this article with the observation , that , next to theology , political science is in the most ...
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... heart the cause of national independence and rational freedom , and met with the basest ingratitude . North American Review , No. XXXI . pp . 330 , 331 . only willing to level down to their own condition : On the Study of Political ...
... heart the cause of national independence and rational freedom , and met with the basest ingratitude . North American Review , No. XXXI . pp . 330 , 331 . only willing to level down to their own condition : On the Study of Political ...
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... hearts of the simple . ' 66 99 It will not be denied , that there is much of this element of division , delusion , and offence at present afloat , if we may be allowed the expression , in the atmosphere of the religious world . It is a ...
... hearts of the simple . ' 66 99 It will not be denied , that there is much of this element of division , delusion , and offence at present afloat , if we may be allowed the expression , in the atmosphere of the religious world . It is a ...
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... heart to the test ; and we may without presumption conclude , that they are permitted for this end . " If any man will do the will of God , he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God . " The rule of faith speaks no ambiguous ...
... heart to the test ; and we may without presumption conclude , that they are permitted for this end . " If any man will do the will of God , he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God . " The rule of faith speaks no ambiguous ...
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Page 6 - Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence: the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Page 13 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
Page 38 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Page 540 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 52 - God by the weak pinions of our reason, but he has been pleased to descend to us , and what Socrates said of him, what Plato writ, and the rest of the Heathen philosophers of several nations, is all no more than the twilight of revelation, after the sun of it was set in the race of Noah.
Page 219 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 192 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 209 - ... and one even put on a military cockade, in order to incite his parishioners to come forward in the public cause. The genuine principles of our admirable constitution were thought by many to be in imminent peril ; yet all who wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded.
Page 348 - Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican.
Page 245 - We have thought fit, by, and with, the Advice of our Privy Council, to...