| 1823 - Liczba stron: 542
...they should net upon the subject, that the chief obstacle to be come at, why means should not be taken the progress of divine truth over the minds of men, is the want of its being properly presented to them. In this Christian country there are, perhaps, nine-tenths of every class... | |
| Edward Irving - 1824 - Liczba stron: 618
......... 630 a2 :•..) .,; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. IT hath appeared to the Author of this book, from more than ten years' meditation upon the subject,...sufficiently presented to them. In this Christian country there'are, perhaps, nine tenths of every class who know nothing at all about the applications and advantages... | |
| 1824 - Liczba stron: 890
...hereafter), is of most uncompromising aspect: " It hath appeared," he says, " to the author of this book, from more than ten years' meditation upon the subject,...truth over the minds of men is the want of its being properly presented to them."—But perhaps he qualifies the passage in the next sentence ; intimating... | |
| Edward Irving - 1824 - Liczba stron: 414
...endeavour to bring it home to the Sons of Men . . 369 Ir hath appeared to the Author of this book, from more than ten years' meditation upon the subject,...truth over the minds of men, is the want of its being properly presented to them. In this Christian country there are, perhaps, nine-tenths of every class... | |
| Edward Irving - 1824 - Liczba stron: 418
...to bring it home to the Sons of Men . . 369 I • . , IT hath appeared to the Author of this book, from more than ten years' meditation upon the subject,...progress of divine truth over the minds of men, is the \vant of its being properly presented to them. In this Christian country there are, perhaps, nine-tenths... | |
| 1824 - Liczba stron: 552
...following paragraph: " It hath appeared to the Author of this book, from more than ten years meditation on the subject, "that the chief obstacle to the progress...truth over the minds of men, is the want of its being properly presented to them. In this Christian country there are, perhaps, nine-tenths of every class,... | |
| 1826 - Liczba stron: 688
...minister of Hatton Garden tells us that, " it hath appeared to him, from more than ten year's observation, that the chief obstacle to the progress of divine truth over the minds of men is the manner in which it is presented to them ;" and there are not a few on this side of the Atlantic, who... | |
| 1824 - Liczba stron: 694
...thus announced in the preface of this volume. It hath appeared to the Author of this hook, from Diorc than ten years' meditation upon the subject, that...truth over the minds of men, is the want of its being properly presented to them. In this Christian country there are, perhaps, nine tenths of every class,... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1824 - Liczba stron: 604
...hereafter,) is of most uncompromising aspect; 'It hath appeared,' he says, ' to the author of this book, from more than ten years' meditation upon the subject,...truth over the minds of men is the want of its being properly presented to them.'—But perhaps he qualifies the passage in the next sentence; intimating... | |
| Washington Wilks - 1854 - Liczba stron: 308
...enunciation of two startling, and general minisnot inoffensive propositions ; the first, that f 1 " 1 defiden the chief obstacle to the progress of divine truth...want of its being sufficiently presented to them; the second, that in this Christian country, nine-tenths of every class know nothing at all of the advantages... | |
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