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... argument was , that those who become devotees after a popish fashion evade in part the obligation to devotion ; yea , they evade the greater part , being devoted for themselves alone , and not for their brethren . No one could esteem a ...
... argument was , that those who become devotees after a popish fashion evade in part the obligation to devotion ; yea , they evade the greater part , being devoted for themselves alone , and not for their brethren . No one could esteem a ...
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... arguments which followed still longer , as Liese was tempted on to do more than listen . In the midst of their most eager questions and replies , a summons arrived from the Abbess , who made use of Helena's epistolary accomplishments ...
... arguments which followed still longer , as Liese was tempted on to do more than listen . In the midst of their most eager questions and replies , a summons arrived from the Abbess , who made use of Helena's epistolary accomplishments ...
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... argument is of no avail against experience , and no ridicule can remove conviction . Reasoning from the mere belief of the relation of this life to another , prior to all investigations into the nature and properties of spirit and ...
... argument is of no avail against experience , and no ridicule can remove conviction . Reasoning from the mere belief of the relation of this life to another , prior to all investigations into the nature and properties of spirit and ...
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... arguments , internally pronounces his opponent a fool or a madman ; while the bystanders , who know him to be neither the one nor the other , admit his testimony , and the matter rests where it did before . If this natural philosopher ...
... arguments , internally pronounces his opponent a fool or a madman ; while the bystanders , who know him to be neither the one nor the other , admit his testimony , and the matter rests where it did before . If this natural philosopher ...
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Harriet Martineau. If this natural philosopher should meet with a moral philosopher , the argument may be renewed on another ground . The one declares that no human testimony shall make him believe that which science shows to be impossi ...
Harriet Martineau. If this natural philosopher should meet with a moral philosopher , the argument may be renewed on another ground . The one declares that no human testimony shall make him believe that which science shows to be impossi ...
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Page 223 - He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him : for he said, I am the Son of God.
Page 224 - Christ, save Thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And He said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily, I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Page 386 - What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there ! In October, 1692, one of Wenham complained of mrs.
Page 94 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, 1 Against foul fiends to aid us militant!
Page 100 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 94 - O th' exceeding grace Of highest God ! that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us...
Page 330 - It is absolutely necessary for it to be exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity? — Never? 82. Never? — Let me not think this blasphemy, All Merciful! Education has its goal, in the race, no less than in the individual. That which is educated is educated for a purpose.
Page 236 - I told him that weed contained better arguments for the Being and Attributes of God than all his metaphysics. Clarke confessed it to be so ; but alleged for himself, that since such philosophers as Hobbes and Spinoza had made use of those kinds of subtilties against, he thought it proper to show that the like way of reasoning might be made better use of on the side of religion ; which reason or excuse I allowed to be not inconsiderable.
Page 116 - Putting idiots and extraordinary cases out of the question, every human creature is endowed with talents (or his nature involves principles) which, if rightly directed, would shew him to be apt, adroit, intelligent, and acute, in the walk for which his organization especially fitted him.
Page 349 - disgusted at the subject" he proposes to be debated in our future correspondence. It does not "terrify me" to hear, that a person whom I sincerely love, and for whose character I have the truest regard, has entertained some doubts, which he cannot entirely get over, concerning a book which his earliest instructors recommended to him as the word of God. It is certainly the duty of every rational creature to bring his religion to the strictest test, and to retain or reject the faith in which he has...