The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of NatureW. Whyte, 1824 - 398 |
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Strona xxxiii
... implies its extinction , as sleep or a swoon may convince us . * The probability of a future state once granted , an im- portant question arises , How best to secure our interest in that state ? We find from what passes daily before us ...
... implies its extinction , as sleep or a swoon may convince us . * The probability of a future state once granted , an im- portant question arises , How best to secure our interest in that state ? We find from what passes daily before us ...
Strona xxxiv
... implying in it difficulties and danger , it is also a state of discipline and improvement ; and that , both in our tem- poral and religious capacity . Thus , childhood is a state of discipline for youth ; youth for manhood ; and that ...
... implying in it difficulties and danger , it is also a state of discipline and improvement ; and that , both in our tem- poral and religious capacity . Thus , childhood is a state of discipline for youth ; youth for manhood ; and that ...
Strona lxi
... ; and particularly of the latter , CHAP . III . Of the Moral Government of God , - CHAP . IV . Of a State of Probation , as implying Trial , Difficulties , and Danger , 39 55 87 CHAP . V. Of a State of Probation , as CONTENTS. ...
... ; and particularly of the latter , CHAP . III . Of the Moral Government of God , - CHAP . IV . Of a State of Probation , as implying Trial , Difficulties , and Danger , 39 55 87 CHAP . V. Of a State of Probation , as CONTENTS. ...
Strona 19
... imply the destruc- tion of a living agent . And , besides , as we are greatly in the dark upon what the exercise of our living powers depends , so we are wholly ignorant what the powers themselves depend upon ; the powers themselves ...
... imply the destruc- tion of a living agent . And , besides , as we are greatly in the dark upon what the exercise of our living powers depends , so we are wholly ignorant what the powers themselves depend upon ; the powers themselves ...
Strona 21
... imply a contradiction to suppose part of this motion to exist , and part not to exist , i . e . part of this matter to move , and part to be at rest ; then its power of motion would be indivisible ; and so also would the subject in ...
... imply a contradiction to suppose part of this motion to exist , and part not to exist , i . e . part of this matter to move , and part to be at rest ; then its power of motion would be indivisible ; and so also would the subject in ...
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Strona xxviii - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Strona 52 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Strona lix - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Strona 6 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Strona 256 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for. See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.
Strona 51 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded : but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Strona 335 - And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Strona 234 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Strona 256 - For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Strona 235 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all...