Reasons for the Hope that is in Us: A Series of Essays on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, the Immortality of the Soul, and Other Important Subjects, Adapted to the Understanding of Young PersonsH. Constable, 1831 - 263 pages |
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... thought to be but luminous vapours , produced from the moisture of the sea , and nourished by the atmosphere ; * but the days of such comparative ignorance are long gone by . The most reasonable conjecture now is , that all of those ...
... thought to be but luminous vapours , produced from the moisture of the sea , and nourished by the atmosphere ; * but the days of such comparative ignorance are long gone by . The most reasonable conjecture now is , that all of those ...
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... thought of this over- powers us ; but our enquirer would in imagination reach even the farthest of those stars which astrono- mical vision has discovered ; and do you think that he should then have arrived at the farthest verge of ...
... thought of this over- powers us ; but our enquirer would in imagination reach even the farthest of those stars which astrono- mical vision has discovered ; and do you think that he should then have arrived at the farthest verge of ...
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... thought , at the remotest fixed star which has been seen from this world with the most powerful tele- scopes - would he find none beyond it ? and have we a right to think that he should have reached unoccupied space , and the utmost ...
... thought , at the remotest fixed star which has been seen from this world with the most powerful tele- scopes - would he find none beyond it ? and have we a right to think that he should have reached unoccupied space , and the utmost ...
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... thoughts beyond the planets , even into the region of the distant heavens . His mind having reached the idea of one great Being , with design and power adequate to the creation of our own system , would naturally cling to him as alone ...
... thoughts beyond the planets , even into the region of the distant heavens . His mind having reached the idea of one great Being , with design and power adequate to the creation of our own system , would naturally cling to him as alone ...
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... thoughts must rise in a particular man- ner to MAN : and while design , and unity , and accom- modation of means to ends , appear in the less import- ant parts of nature , it has been in him , though styled the lord of the creation ...
... thoughts must rise in a particular man- ner to MAN : and while design , and unity , and accom- modation of means to ends , appear in the less import- ant parts of nature , it has been in him , though styled the lord of the creation ...
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Page 78 - They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be : that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.
Page 109 - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you : continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Page 132 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 147 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 161 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 48 - I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 46 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 30 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 190 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 216 - ... by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages of society than that in which it was introduced, to wants of human nature not then developed, seems to me very striking. The religion bears the marks of having come from a being who perfectly understood the human mind, and had power to provide for its progress. This feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future...