The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the Fall |
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... placed above the laws of righteousness , which He has implanted in the heart of His own creatures . Moral good and evil , happiness and misery , salvation and ruin , are viewed as alike the results of His arbitrary and sovereign will ...
... placed above the laws of righteousness , which He has implanted in the heart of His own creatures . Moral good and evil , happiness and misery , salvation and ruin , are viewed as alike the results of His arbitrary and sovereign will ...
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... placed at opposite extremities of the line , and every step that approaches the one must recede in equal proportion from the other . " The solution of this difficulty , which seems to be most usual among Christian divines , is by no ...
... placed at opposite extremities of the line , and every step that approaches the one must recede in equal proportion from the other . " The solution of this difficulty , which seems to be most usual among Christian divines , is by no ...
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... placed on the same footing of crime with the active working of evil . But the alleged purpose , that good may come , will not shield active wrong - doing from deserved condemnation . How , then , can it be a moral justification for the ...
... placed on the same footing of crime with the active working of evil . But the alleged purpose , that good may come , will not shield active wrong - doing from deserved condemnation . How , then , can it be a moral justification for the ...
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... placed , when combined with its own previous state , the power of choice seems to dwindle into a mere point , and free agency would be lost in a fatal necessity , as firm and unalterable as that by which water finds its level , or atoms ...
... placed , when combined with its own previous state , the power of choice seems to dwindle into a mere point , and free agency would be lost in a fatal necessity , as firm and unalterable as that by which water finds its level , or atoms ...
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... placed lower or higher among its fellows , it can easily conceive a range of activity , or a degree of authority , larger and fuller than its own . Its intellect knows something of the Maker and His works ; but still more remains ...
... placed lower or higher among its fellows , it can easily conceive a range of activity , or a degree of authority , larger and fuller than its own . Its intellect knows something of the Maker and His works ; but still more remains ...
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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...