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... It excludes the worthless and the evil . Seven years must elapse after a man's death before deciding whether he is to be incorporated in the Supreme Being and honoured with a commemora- tive bust 12 ESSAYS ON THE BIBLE .
... It excludes the worthless and the evil . Seven years must elapse after a man's death before deciding whether he is to be incorporated in the Supreme Being and honoured with a commemora- tive bust 12 ESSAYS ON THE BIBLE .
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... deceive and mock him if death is the end of all . Few will be willing to admit that the wisdom mani- fested in our creation could be prostituted to so male- volent a purpose . We shall rather say with Kant 18 ESSAYS ON THE BIBLE .
... deceive and mock him if death is the end of all . Few will be willing to admit that the wisdom mani- fested in our creation could be prostituted to so male- volent a purpose . We shall rather say with Kant 18 ESSAYS ON THE BIBLE .
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... death . If there even be a strong probability of such a life , ought we not earnestly to ponder the solemn words of Christ , ' What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul , or what shall a man give in ...
... death . If there even be a strong probability of such a life , ought we not earnestly to ponder the solemn words of Christ , ' What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul , or what shall a man give in ...
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... death with the hope of happy re - union beyond the grave . Because we ourselves have lived influ- among ences such as these , and because we have experienced the mighty power of Christ's Gospel in our own hearts , we recommend that ...
... death with the hope of happy re - union beyond the grave . Because we ourselves have lived influ- among ences such as these , and because we have experienced the mighty power of Christ's Gospel in our own hearts , we recommend that ...
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... death , of the soul - which is the true one , the gods may know ; which is probable , is still a great question . " Cæsar , in the Roman Senate , publicly denied a future life . Pliny , Lucretius , Horace and many others , represent the ...
... death , of the soul - which is the true one , the gods may know ; which is probable , is still a great question . " Cæsar , in the Roman Senate , publicly denied a future life . Pliny , Lucretius , Horace and many others , represent the ...
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Page 206 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 145 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you : searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 211 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 236 - And what shall I more say ? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah ; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets...
Page 103 - And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed. And Jesus seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy ; Son, be of good cheer ; thy sins be forgiven thee.
Page 157 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 188 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 66 - I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 51 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last - far off - at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Page 235 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.