The Life, Character, and Literary Labours of Samuel Drew, A. M.Harper, 1835 - 363 pages |
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... Revelation - to examine the evidences on which our expectations of eternal happiness rest - to place them in the clearest and most commanding light B -to point the way from probability to " a sure SECTION I Preliminary Remarks.
... Revelation - to examine the evidences on which our expectations of eternal happiness rest - to place them in the clearest and most commanding light B -to point the way from probability to " a sure SECTION I Preliminary Remarks.
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... evidence of facts . The accu- mulation and comparison of these will lead to the conviction , that the religion of the heart is favourable to the highest dis- plays of the intellect , and confirm the scriptural declaration , that ...
... evidence of facts . The accu- mulation and comparison of these will lead to the conviction , that the religion of the heart is favourable to the highest dis- plays of the intellect , and confirm the scriptural declaration , that ...
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... evidence of her acceptance clear - her death triumphant . She departed this life in the full assurance of faith , leaving to her children , as a legacy , her Christian example . Rather more than a year before the mother's death , the pa ...
... evidence of her acceptance clear - her death triumphant . She departed this life in the full assurance of faith , leaving to her children , as a legacy , her Christian example . Rather more than a year before the mother's death , the pa ...
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... evidence . Fully sensible , from what he had himself experienced of the supreme importance and general truth of personal religion , he was led to investigate closely the various particulars of his creed , and to cultivate his mind ...
... evidence . Fully sensible , from what he had himself experienced of the supreme importance and general truth of personal religion , he was led to investigate closely the various particulars of his creed , and to cultivate his mind ...
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... evidence , before he gave it credit . With- out waiting the decision of the local preachers ' meeting , where it must be openly discussed , a short method was adopted , in which authority was substituted for reason . The proceeding we ...
... evidence , before he gave it credit . With- out waiting the decision of the local preachers ' meeting , where it must be openly discussed , a short method was adopted , in which authority was substituted for reason . The proceeding we ...
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Page 47 - Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me: out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
Page 21 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the LORD Almighty...
Page 66 - It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 47 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 264 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.