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Strona 10
... existence beyond the grave . Every thing around me convinced me of my own mortality . If I suffered myself to be amused with the speculations of philosophy , I frequently reflected , that the volumes which gave me so much delight were ...
... existence beyond the grave . Every thing around me convinced me of my own mortality . If I suffered myself to be amused with the speculations of philosophy , I frequently reflected , that the volumes which gave me so much delight were ...
Strona 11
... existence end with this transitory life ? If so , why was I formed to drag out a few moments of anxiety and pain , and then sleep for ever ? If my exist- ence terminate like that of the feeble insect I tread upon , why am I not , like ...
... existence end with this transitory life ? If so , why was I formed to drag out a few moments of anxiety and pain , and then sleep for ever ? If my exist- ence terminate like that of the feeble insect I tread upon , why am I not , like ...
Strona 12
... existence ; and though I had learned the fashionable cant of infidelity , and would laugh with Voltaire at the credulity of mankind , yet often did my heart sigh for something it pos- sessed not , though I did not rightly comprehend the ...
... existence ; and though I had learned the fashionable cant of infidelity , and would laugh with Voltaire at the credulity of mankind , yet often did my heart sigh for something it pos- sessed not , though I did not rightly comprehend the ...
Strona 31
... existence of Deity become the subject of scepticism ? Alas ! the pride of man has sometimes disdained to acknowledge his Creator ; and this , not the ob- scurity or uncertainty of this important truth , has made argument sometimes ...
... existence of Deity become the subject of scepticism ? Alas ! the pride of man has sometimes disdained to acknowledge his Creator ; and this , not the ob- scurity or uncertainty of this important truth , has made argument sometimes ...
Strona 32
... existence of one supreme God , how can we account for the harmonious organization and regular mechanism of the human body ? Was man formed by the fortu- itous concurrence of atoms ? Why then do we never see human beings thus formed at ...
... existence of one supreme God , how can we account for the harmonious organization and regular mechanism of the human body ? Was man formed by the fortu- itous concurrence of atoms ? Why then do we never see human beings thus formed at ...
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Strona 92 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Strona 90 - Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Strona 83 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Strona 19 - And also you must instruct and teach your Indians and negroes and all others how that Christ, by the grace of God, tasted death for every man...
Strona 64 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Strona 89 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Strona 60 - The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Strona 89 - He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Strona 38 - tis at such a sight : The wretch they quit, desponding of their charge, More struck with grief or wonder who can tell...
Strona 39 - The whirls of passions, and the strokes of heart. A deity believed, is joy begun ; A deity adored, is joy advanced ; A deity beloved, is joy matured.