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... universe , He cannot so leave it , or any the minutest part of it , in its immensity and intricacy of movement , to itself ; for , if He retire , there is no second God to take care of this machine . Not from a single atom of matter can ...
... universe , He cannot so leave it , or any the minutest part of it , in its immensity and intricacy of movement , to itself ; for , if He retire , there is no second God to take care of this machine . Not from a single atom of matter can ...
Page 81
... universe ? If the fitful breeze that stirs a meadow or ripples a brook be a subject of investigation too extensive and complicated for mortal intellect to grasp , surely there is little marvel that it cannot explain and calculate the ...
... universe ? If the fitful breeze that stirs a meadow or ripples a brook be a subject of investigation too extensive and complicated for mortal intellect to grasp , surely there is little marvel that it cannot explain and calculate the ...
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... universe , luminous with the traces of beneficence and wisdom . And all that to human eye seems dark , unaccountable , capri- cious , in the economy of grace , is so only , we may be well assured , because our feeble minds are ...
... universe , luminous with the traces of beneficence and wisdom . And all that to human eye seems dark , unaccountable , capri- cious , in the economy of grace , is so only , we may be well assured , because our feeble minds are ...
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... universe itself is but a feeble expression of God's illimitable greatness . Beyond all created forms of beauty there is ever a " glory that excelleth , " which the imagination can- not conceive ; nor does it seem possible for even ...
... universe itself is but a feeble expression of God's illimitable greatness . Beyond all created forms of beauty there is ever a " glory that excelleth , " which the imagination can- not conceive ; nor does it seem possible for even ...
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... universe , with all its beauty , and order , and harmony , was in the mind of the Creator ere it took form in the visible splendours of earth , and sea , and skies . Conceive , then , what it would be to rise above and beyond these ...
... universe , with all its beauty , and order , and harmony , was in the mind of the Creator ere it took form in the visible splendours of earth , and sea , and skies . Conceive , then , what it would be to rise above and beyond these ...
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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...