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... Being , but that He is also the author of sin , and which regards the practice of virtue as a bond of the spirit preventing its complete eman- cipation ? A religion which regards good and evil as 6 ESSAYS ON THE BIBLE .
... Being , but that He is also the author of sin , and which regards the practice of virtue as a bond of the spirit preventing its complete eman- cipation ? A religion which regards good and evil as 6 ESSAYS ON THE BIBLE .
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... finally this hypothesis is opposed to our moral sense . The man who commits the sin and he who suffers for it are really different beings . Conscious- ness alone can maintain the identity of the two . I. THE DUTY OF RELIGIOUS INQUIRY . 7.
... finally this hypothesis is opposed to our moral sense . The man who commits the sin and he who suffers for it are really different beings . Conscious- ness alone can maintain the identity of the two . I. THE DUTY OF RELIGIOUS INQUIRY . 7.
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... sins of whose nature and existence we know nothing at all . If Hindus would only weigh the evidence in sup- port of the doctrines of their Shástras according to the principles which guide their judgment in every- day life , and if they ...
... sins of whose nature and existence we know nothing at all . If Hindus would only weigh the evidence in sup- port of the doctrines of their Shástras according to the principles which guide their judgment in every- day life , and if they ...
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... sin . III . There are some who will entirely concur in this destructive criticism of Hinduism who will never- theless not admit that we have made out a case for the examination of Christianity or any other religion . They will agree ...
... sin . III . There are some who will entirely concur in this destructive criticism of Hinduism who will never- theless not admit that we have made out a case for the examination of Christianity or any other religion . They will agree ...
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... sin . And if any young men are tempted to make the acquaintance of a system which inculcates vice , deceived it may be by the covering of science which at first hides its true nature , we earnestly beseech them to pause before taking a ...
... sin . And if any young men are tempted to make the acquaintance of a system which inculcates vice , deceived it may be by the covering of science which at first hides its true nature , we earnestly beseech them to pause before taking a ...
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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.