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... NATURE OF EVIL . PAGE 1 CHAPTER I. 17 CHAPTER II . 32 CHAPTER III . ON THE CREATION OF FREE AGENTS 41 · CHAPTER IV . ON TEMPTATION IN FREE AGENTS · CHAPTER V. ON THE CREATION AND FALL OF ANGELS b . 65 78 ' CHAPTER VI . PAGE 101 ON THE ...
... NATURE OF EVIL . PAGE 1 CHAPTER I. 17 CHAPTER II . 32 CHAPTER III . ON THE CREATION OF FREE AGENTS 41 · CHAPTER IV . ON TEMPTATION IN FREE AGENTS · CHAPTER V. ON THE CREATION AND FALL OF ANGELS b . 65 78 ' CHAPTER VI . PAGE 101 ON THE ...
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... natural and revealed . As it is to readers of this class alone that it is addressed , the work should be read with reference to its own object . There are some , perhaps , whose childlike faith is content to follow the plainer lessons ...
... natural and revealed . As it is to readers of this class alone that it is addressed , the work should be read with reference to its own object . There are some , perhaps , whose childlike faith is content to follow the plainer lessons ...
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... natural and revealed religion . It is the fountain out of which every other truth must really flow . " I AM THAT I ... nature , may possibly be latest in the order of human knowledge . The laws on which the movements of our earth , and ...
... natural and revealed religion . It is the fountain out of which every other truth must really flow . " I AM THAT I ... nature , may possibly be latest in the order of human knowledge . The laws on which the movements of our earth , and ...
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... nature of the truth , and our faint and variable apprehensions of it , has led to some perplexity with regard to the evidence on which it rests . The pious mind shrinks from the thought that a doctrine so momentous should be viewed ...
... nature of the truth , and our faint and variable apprehensions of it , has led to some perplexity with regard to the evidence on which it rests . The pious mind shrinks from the thought that a doctrine so momentous should be viewed ...
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... nature of the links alone which determines the degrees of evidence . But while we may deduce a large variety of effects from a single cause , clearly defined and fully known , our knowledge of the cause must be imperfect and limited ...
... nature of the links alone which determines the degrees of evidence . But while we may deduce a large variety of effects from a single cause , clearly defined and fully known , our knowledge of the cause must be imperfect and limited ...
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Page 53 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 164 - Such an improvement of the doctrine of the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent...
Page 33 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page 158 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Page 79 - And in Eph. vi. 12, the same bad influence is referred to under the names of " principalities, and powers," " the rulers of the darkness of this world," and " spiritual wickedness in high places.
Page 68 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Page 81 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...
Page 183 - Prize Essay for 1877. 8vo. &r. 6d. SMITH— Works by the Rev. BARNARD SMITH, MA, Rector of Glaston, Rutland, late Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA, in their Principles and Application ; with numerous systematically arranged Examples taken from the Cambridge Examination Papers, with especial reference to the Ordinary Examination for the BA Degree.
Page 68 - sdained subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burdensome still paying, still to owe...
Page 84 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...