Endless Punishment: Its Origin and Grounds Examined : with Other DiscoursesC. L. Stickney, 1845 - 252 pages |
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... hearts are here able even to conceive . But this favored class embraces , unfortunately , but a small portion even of the chris- tian world ; for we behold on every hand unbelief and crime , and a too obvious want of the 1 Origin of the ...
... hearts are here able even to conceive . But this favored class embraces , unfortunately , but a small portion even of the chris- tian world ; for we behold on every hand unbelief and crime , and a too obvious want of the 1 Origin of the ...
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... hearts with a more commanding power . Nor can I persuade myself that this great ques- tion , which springs up so ... heart of humanity in its seasons of deepest thought ; and the soul of the mourner in the night watches , when it ...
... hearts with a more commanding power . Nor can I persuade myself that this great ques- tion , which springs up so ... heart of humanity in its seasons of deepest thought ; and the soul of the mourner in the night watches , when it ...
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... heart . When we consider the brutal igno- rance of the ancient heathen world , and the princi- ples on which it generally acted , principles of almost unqualified selfishness and revenge , with an utter disregard of the rights and the ...
... heart . When we consider the brutal igno- rance of the ancient heathen world , and the princi- ples on which it generally acted , principles of almost unqualified selfishness and revenge , with an utter disregard of the rights and the ...
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... heart . What astonishes me is , that the world so generally re- gards this terrible doctrine as the voice of God , and consentaneous with all that is good in human nature . I have learned to look upon it in a dif- ferent light . I ...
... heart . What astonishes me is , that the world so generally re- gards this terrible doctrine as the voice of God , and consentaneous with all that is good in human nature . I have learned to look upon it in a dif- ferent light . I ...
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... heart - gratitude and good - will . The fruits of this noble action are briefly related , and we see how lasting as well as happy were its con- sequences . " The bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel . " An easy and ...
... heart - gratitude and good - will . The fruits of this noble action are briefly related , and we see how lasting as well as happy were its con- sequences . " The bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel . " An easy and ...
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Page 60 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 182 - Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 60 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Page 171 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 29 - And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Page 148 - Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Page 148 - Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 61 - Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat. All shall come back; each tie Of pure affection shall be knit again; Alone shall Evil die, And Sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign.
Page 108 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 208 - and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.