Endless Punishment: Its Origin and Grounds Examined : with Other DiscoursesC. L. Stickney, 1845 - 252 pages |
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... Perhaps one to nine would be a nearer approximation to the truth . Beyond the sphere of Christendom , which as yet embraces but about one quarter of the habit- able earth , all is of course darkness and death.- There is no gospel , no ...
... Perhaps one to nine would be a nearer approximation to the truth . Beyond the sphere of Christendom , which as yet embraces but about one quarter of the habit- able earth , all is of course darkness and death.- There is no gospel , no ...
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... perhaps been less attended to by us than most others , and which yet deserves examination at our hands . For it is not only the real , but the apparent , with which we have to do . There are many fallacies which are so ingeniously ...
... perhaps been less attended to by us than most others , and which yet deserves examination at our hands . For it is not only the real , but the apparent , with which we have to do . There are many fallacies which are so ingeniously ...
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... perhaps must , be admitted that whatever opinion , or even tendency , we ob- serve to be universal and invariable among men , that is , the same in all ages and all countries , must have a ground in the very constitution of human nature ...
... perhaps must , be admitted that whatever opinion , or even tendency , we ob- serve to be universal and invariable among men , that is , the same in all ages and all countries , must have a ground in the very constitution of human nature ...
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... Perhaps I shall be told that idolatry and poly- theism , are only a perversion of the true religion —a kind of monstrous birth , showing the results of ignorance under the instinctive impulses of man's religious nature . This I readily ...
... Perhaps I shall be told that idolatry and poly- theism , are only a perversion of the true religion —a kind of monstrous birth , showing the results of ignorance under the instinctive impulses of man's religious nature . This I readily ...
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... perhaps impossible to trace the doctrine of endless misery back to its source , I am quite willing to acknowledge ; for like many other errors and superstitions , idolatry , witchcraft and the like , it undoubtedly had a pret- ty early ...
... perhaps impossible to trace the doctrine of endless misery back to its source , I am quite willing to acknowledge ; for like many other errors and superstitions , idolatry , witchcraft and the like , it undoubtedly had a pret- ty early ...
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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.