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... and that infinite world of moral beauty and harmony which revelation discloses , there is a correspondence so deep and real that the inner eye ! • and ear , if undiseased , discern at SELF - EVIDENCING NATURE OF DIVINE TRUTH . 3.
... and that infinite world of moral beauty and harmony which revelation discloses , there is a correspondence so deep and real that the inner eye ! • and ear , if undiseased , discern at SELF - EVIDENCING NATURE OF DIVINE TRUTH . 3.
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... we " find out God ; " though , again , the con- ception of a pure and holy moral law , or yet again , the vision of a glorious immortality , be unattainable by any spontaneous effort of human reason , yet 8 SERMON I.
... we " find out God ; " though , again , the con- ception of a pure and holy moral law , or yet again , the vision of a glorious immortality , be unattainable by any spontaneous effort of human reason , yet 8 SERMON I.
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... moral standard so ineffaceably inscribed on the conscience , there slumbers in the universal heart a desire and yearning after immortality so deep and strong , that that Bible , which contains in it the revelation of God and Holiness ...
... moral standard so ineffaceably inscribed on the conscience , there slumbers in the universal heart a desire and yearning after immortality so deep and strong , that that Bible , which contains in it the revelation of God and Holiness ...
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... moral reason has become dimmed and distorted , so that , instead of affording a per- fect , unerring reflection , it breaks and refracts the light of truth into a thousand unreal forms and phantasms . It might be possible for the inner ...
... moral reason has become dimmed and distorted , so that , instead of affording a per- fect , unerring reflection , it breaks and refracts the light of truth into a thousand unreal forms and phantasms . It might be possible for the inner ...
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... moral and spiritual being , it is not difficult to con- ceive . The degenerate plant has no consciousness of its own degradation , nor could it , when reduced to the character of a weed or a wild - flower , re- cognise in the fair and ...
... moral and spiritual being , it is not difficult to con- ceive . The degenerate plant has no consciousness of its own degradation , nor could it , when reduced to the character of a weed or a wild - flower , re- cognise in the fair and ...
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Page 229 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 143 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death...
Page 102 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 251 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 265 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...