Works, Volumes 1-2Walker, Wise and Company, 1862 |
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Page vi
... religious , as a minister to human pride , perhaps as exalt- ing man against God . A few remarks on this point seem , therefore , a proper introduction to these volumes . It is not , however , my purpose in this place to enter far into ...
... religious , as a minister to human pride , perhaps as exalt- ing man against God . A few remarks on this point seem , therefore , a proper introduction to these volumes . It is not , however , my purpose in this place to enter far into ...
Page vii
... religious people . From the direction , which theology has taken , it has been thought , that to ascribe any thing to man , was to detract so much from God . The disposition has been , to establish striking contrasts between man and God ...
... religious people . From the direction , which theology has taken , it has been thought , that to ascribe any thing to man , was to detract so much from God . The disposition has been , to establish striking contrasts between man and God ...
Page ix
... religion has arisen from throwing a part of them into obscurity . In most religious systems , the tendency has been to seize exclusively on the idea of the Infinite , and to sacri- fice to this the finite , the created , the human ...
... religion has arisen from throwing a part of them into obscurity . In most religious systems , the tendency has been to seize exclusively on the idea of the Infinite , and to sacri- fice to this the finite , the created , the human ...
Page x
... religion as God's infinity . In the king- dom of Heaven , the moral power of the subject is as es- sential as the omnipotence of the sovereign . The rights of both have the same sacredness . To rob man of his dig- nity is as truly to ...
... religion as God's infinity . In the king- dom of Heaven , the moral power of the subject is as es- sential as the omnipotence of the sovereign . The rights of both have the same sacredness . To rob man of his dig- nity is as truly to ...
Page xi
... religious reverence . Their gods were men . Their philosophy , though in a measure borrowed from or tinctured with the Eastern , still spoke of man as his own master , as having an independent happiness in the energy of his own will ...
... religious reverence . Their gods were men . Their philosophy , though in a measure borrowed from or tinctured with the Eastern , still spoke of man as his own master , as having an independent happiness in the energy of his own will ...
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Page 318 - Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Page 28 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 33 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or...
Page 322 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 27 - God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 9 - ... feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
Page 14 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 231 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 27 - ... to inbreed 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...
Page 50 - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes ; flowers and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual...