Aids to Reflection: In the Formation of a Manly Character, on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton |
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APHORISM Apostle Aristotle assertion Atheism authority Baptism believe called cause character Christ Christian Church conscience consequences contradiction conviction discourse distinction Divine doctrine EDITOR effect essential evil existence experience express fact faculty faith feeling former Gospel ground hath heart Heraclitus holy human idea infant Baptism infer instance instinct intellectual intelligible Irenæus Jeremy Taylor knowledge language latter least LEIGHTON less light living Lord Bacon mankind means metaphysical mind moral mysterious Natura Naturans nature notion object opinions original Original Sin outward passage perfect person phænomena philosophy Plato pleasure Plotinus possible present principle proof proper prudence question rational rational psychology reader reason Redemption reference reflection religion religious S. T. COLERIDGE SCHOLIUM Scripture sensations Socinian sophism soul Spirit supposed symbol tence theological things thou thought tion true truth understanding universal views virtue whole words writers
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Page 17 - He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Page 46 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 289 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 211 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Page 281 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 256 - On the other hand a Symbol is characterized by a translucence of the Special in the Individual or of the General in the Especial or of the Universal in the General. Above all by the translucence of the Eternal through and in the Temporal. It always partakes of the Reality which it renders intelligible; and while it enunciates the whole, abides itself as a living part in that Unity, of which it is the representative.
Page 27 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 25 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 269 - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, And with labour do we find the things that are before us...
Page 23 - As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.