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 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...wert dumb as a beast." He believed that " when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a sonorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal." The love of truth and liberty, the sense of responsibility, the consciousness of power entrusted to... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1845 - 436 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow...man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal This I foresee, that should the church be brought under heavy oppression, and God have given me ability... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1827 - 516 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow...will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. * * * This I foresee, that should the Church be brought under heavy oppression, and God have given... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 pages
...happiness. lint when God commands to take the trumpet, nnd Mow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lieл not in man's will what he shall say: or what he shall concenl." Milton then describee, ' in language scarcely less remarkable for its power than for its... | |
 | Baptists - 1878 - 300 pages
...men are firmly convinced that conscience, honour, and credit, are all in one interest. — Steele. When God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal. — Milton. I once read an inscription over the gate of a cemetery; the words were these — " They... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - English essays - 1846 - 442 pages
...have framed his measures to the concords of peace ; " but," to use again his own matchless speech, " when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a...will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal." The voice of duty, and the testimony of conscience, were to him the command of God ; he did take the... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 700 pages
...of this remark, which I believe I have quoted before, but no time is lost by reading it twice. "... But when God commands to take the trumpet, And blow a dolorous or thrilling blast, It rota not with man's will what he shall ujr, Or what be shall conceal." Was ever... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1847 - 432 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in mail's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal This I foresee, that should the church be brought... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 572 pages
...governing the psychical progress of mankind. When a fact reveals itself to such a man, "it lies not in his will what he shall say or what he shall conceal. If he think to be silent as Jeremiah die because of the reproach and derision he met with daily, ' and all... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Slavery - 1848 - 430 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow...man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal This I foresee, that should the church be brought under heavy oppression, and God have given me ability... | |
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