Endless Punishment: Its Origin and Grounds Examined : with Other DiscoursesC. L. Stickney, 1845 - 252 pages |
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... representing him as the author of all beings and acts , bad as well as good . All the proof we have that God is sincerely at war with evil , ivites and requires the presumption that he has not , either by creation , by decree , or by ...
... representing him as the author of all beings and acts , bad as well as good . All the proof we have that God is sincerely at war with evil , ivites and requires the presumption that he has not , either by creation , by decree , or by ...
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... represents God as the great , immu- table and infallible executor of his own eter- nal decrees , who employs men and devils , and sin and rebellion alike , in promoting and accom- plishing his purposes , he endeavors to transfer all the ...
... represents God as the great , immu- table and infallible executor of his own eter- nal decrees , who employs men and devils , and sin and rebellion alike , in promoting and accom- plishing his purposes , he endeavors to transfer all the ...
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... represented as often standing in direct opposition to his revealed will . In God's revealed will , for instance , man is strictly forbidden to steal . But A. B. steals notwithstanding . Now as God has " ORIGIN OF SIN . 85.
... represented as often standing in direct opposition to his revealed will . In God's revealed will , for instance , man is strictly forbidden to steal . But A. B. steals notwithstanding . Now as God has " ORIGIN OF SIN . 85.
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... represents the Deity as playing a double part , and if followed out to its just conse- quences , makes God a liar , and his word a tissue of falsehoods . There is one circumstance , however , which we ought not to overlook . It is ...
... represents the Deity as playing a double part , and if followed out to its just conse- quences , makes God a liar , and his word a tissue of falsehoods . There is one circumstance , however , which we ought not to overlook . It is ...
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... fact that Christ was the first to conceive of a universal religion . As he represented God as a universal Father , he of necessity made all men brethren , man . and there could of course be nothing in 118 THE BIRTH OF CHRIST .
... fact that Christ was the first to conceive of a universal religion . As he represented God as a universal Father , he of necessity made all men brethren , man . and there could of course be nothing in 118 THE BIRTH OF CHRIST .
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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.