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... Theist will claim that human conduct be exempted from the law of serial de- velopment . But he refuses to admit what the Positivist seems to think a necessary inference from this - that this character of order in hu- man affairs arises ...
... Theist will claim that human conduct be exempted from the law of serial de- velopment . But he refuses to admit what the Positivist seems to think a necessary inference from this - that this character of order in hu- man affairs arises ...
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... Theist goes further , and maintains that , in the last resort , there is an internal power or self which can not be brought within the law of natural sequence - nay , which , in its essence , defies this law , and places itself over ...
... Theist goes further , and maintains that , in the last resort , there is an internal power or self which can not be brought within the law of natural sequence - nay , which , in its essence , defies this law , and places itself over ...
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... Theism , and of all religion that is not a mere consecration of earthly energies and pas- sions . This is the only spring of a genuine morality that can survey man as under some higher law of voluntary obedience , and not a / mere law ...
... Theism , and of all religion that is not a mere consecration of earthly energies and pas- sions . This is the only spring of a genuine morality that can survey man as under some higher law of voluntary obedience , and not a / mere law ...
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... Theist they are only the glancing expressions of his own faith in a Di- vine origin of humanity - the brightening evi- dence of a higher spirit in it claiming affinity with a higher system of things - a Divine order below which man has ...
... Theist they are only the glancing expressions of his own faith in a Di- vine origin of humanity - the brightening evi- dence of a higher spirit in it claiming affinity with a higher system of things - a Divine order below which man has ...
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... and study . A balder Theism than this it is scarcely possible to conceive . The position of the Positivist is more consistent and intelligible . He generalizes facts , and gathers them into . unities 3 OBJECT OF RELIGION . 33.
... and study . A balder Theism than this it is scarcely possible to conceive . The position of the Positivist is more consistent and intelligible . He generalizes facts , and gathers them into . unities 3 OBJECT OF RELIGION . 33.
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Page 75 - The God of Abraham, and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified His son Jesus: whom ye delivered up, and denied Him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you, and killed the Prince of Life whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.
Page 281 - What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 248 - ... to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Page 118 - Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Page 32 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 143 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 294 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 120 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Page 295 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Page 280 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.