 Our fault is, we are apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors, and break all bounds in our resentments ; but we let practical ones pass without remark, if not without repentance : as if a mistake about an obscure proposition of faith were a greater...  The Outlaw - Page 209by Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Clarkson - Pennsylvania - 1849 - 444 pages
...be the worse for it. Our fault is, we are apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors, and l)reak all bounds in our resentments ; but we let practical...not work by love, nor their knowledge by obedience. And, if this be their judgment, can it be our tlessing ? Let us not, then, think religion a litigious... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 574 pages
...ourselves; we can never be the better for our religion, if our neighbor be the worse for it. Our fault is, we are apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors,...not work by love, nor their knowledge by obedie"nce. And, if this be their judgment, can it be our blessing ? Let us not, then, think religion a litigious... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 580 pages
...are apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors, and break all bounds in our resentments ; but wo let practical ones pass without remark, if not without...religion the devils themselves are not without ; for thev have both faith and knowledge: but their faith doth not work by love, nor their knowledge by obedience.... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - Death - 1856 - 370 pages
...ornamental, if placed in golden characters, upon the walls of all our churches — " Our fault is, we are apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors,...not work by love, nor their knowledge by obedience." * * * " Let us not think religion a litigious thing ; nor that Christ came only to make us disputants."... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - Death - 1856 - 356 pages
...ornamental, if placed in golden characters, upon the walls of all our churches — " Our fault is, we are apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors,...not work by love, nor their knowledge by obedience." * * * " Let us not think religion a litigious thing ; nor that Christ came only to make us disputants."... | |
 | Hermann Weingarten - Religion - 1868 - 478 pages
...304. 2) Select works l, CXIV. our fault is, we are apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors . . . as if a mistake about an obscure proposition of faith...greater evil, than the breach of an undoubted precept. Let us not then think religion a litigious thing, nor that Christ came only to make us good disputants,... | |
 | 1874 - 180 pages
...ourselves; we can never be the better for our religion, if our neighbour be the worse for it. Our fault is, we are apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors,...not work by love, nor their knowledge by obedience. And, if this be Iheir judgment, can it be our blessing ? Let us not then think religion a litigious... | |
 | William Penn - 1882 - 524 pages
...ourselves ; we can never be the better for our religion, if our neighbor be the worse for it. Our fault is, we are apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors,...not work by love, nor their knowledge by obedience. And if this be their judgment, can it "be our blessing? Lot us not then think religion a litigi&us... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Religion - 1882 - 526 pages
...be the better for our religion, if our neighbor be the worse for it. Our fault is, we are apt to he mighty hot upon speculative errors, and break all...not work by love, nor their knowledge by obedience. And if this be their judgment, can it be our blessing? Let us not then think religion a litigious thing,... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Pennsylvania - 1882 - 532 pages
...apt to be mighty hot upon speculative errors, and break all bounds in our resentments ; but we Jet practical ones pass without remark, if not without...not work by love, nor their knowledge by obedience. And if this be their judgment, can it be our blessing ? Let us not then think religion a litigious... | |
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