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according acting soul action activity Alike ammonia analogy animal ASPECTS OF HUMANITY atmosphere birth bliss body Calvinist cation cause Christian clouds contrary cross crude dark deem Deity dependence derived diffused dispensation displays divine doctrine doth doubtless earth Earth's petty sprouts essential evil external faith flesh formal glory grace growth harmony hath heart Holy Spirit human mind important Impulse ISAIAH Jesus Christ light Lord Jesus MACKINTOSH manifest mankind manure means Memory's keep mental metaphysics mode moral move nature Nature's nitrogen Observation Observation's operations opinions origin outward senses paradox Perchance phenomena philosophy plants pleasure primordial proper Rain-cloud's realm reason Saviour secret seems soil speak strength substance tain talent term MOTIVE Thee things Thoughts or sensations tions toil trace tracts of Mind true trust truth unity unto vegetable whence thy Wherefore wherein whole Whosoever wisdom wondrous word
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Page 15 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Page 54 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 42 - Thus was Beauty sent from heaven, The lovely ministress of truth and good In this dark world : for truth and good are one, And Beauty dwells in them, and they in her, With like participation.
Page 50 - As many as resist not this light, but receive the same, in them is produced an holy, pure, and spiritual birth, bringing forth holiness, righteousness, purity, and all those other blessed fruits which are acceptable to God; by which holy birth, to wit, Jesus Christ formed within us, and working his works in us, as we are sanctified, so we are justified in the sight of God...
Page 51 - God is present with us, by • the effects which he produceth in us. Our outward senses are too gross to apprehend him ; we may, however, taste and see how gracious he is, by his influence upon our minds, by those virtuous thoughts which he awakens in us, by those secret comforts and refreshments which he conveys into our souls, and by those ravishing joys and inward satisfactions, which arc perpetually springing up, and diffusing themselves among all the thoughts of good men.
Page 51 - For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby; and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Page 7 - And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Page 49 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
Page 50 - How should it be otherwise, as long as the imagination of the Worldling is wholly occupied by surfaces, while the Christian's thoughts are fixed on the substance, that which is and abides, and which, because it is the substance, 1 the outward senses cannot recognize.
Page 51 - But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.