Endless Punishment: Its Origin and Grounds Examined : with Other DiscoursesC. L. Stickney, 1845 - 252 pages |
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... true chris- tian believers and of unbelievers or false believ- ers in Christendom . But it would be a liberal estimate which should give them as one to three ; one saint to three sinners ! Perhaps one to nine would be a nearer ...
... true chris- tian believers and of unbelievers or false believ- ers in Christendom . But it would be a liberal estimate which should give them as one to three ; one saint to three sinners ! Perhaps one to nine would be a nearer ...
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... true ) have men thus cruelly tortured themselves for nought ? Why have they indulged in such terrific inventions of fancy ? Why have they passed a sentence so severe on their own depravity ? Is this universal faith the voice of ...
... true ) have men thus cruelly tortured themselves for nought ? Why have they indulged in such terrific inventions of fancy ? Why have they passed a sentence so severe on their own depravity ? Is this universal faith the voice of ...
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... forth . Now whatever opinion or feeling we observe to be universally and invariably entertained , must be grounded in our common nature , and hence in a measure true ; and , consequently , if it 14 ORIGIN OF ENDLESS PUNISHMENT .
... forth . Now whatever opinion or feeling we observe to be universally and invariably entertained , must be grounded in our common nature , and hence in a measure true ; and , consequently , if it 14 ORIGIN OF ENDLESS PUNISHMENT .
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... true . But neither great antiquity , nor commonness , nor the two united , are able to establish the truth of any doctrine , nor even its probability . Because there are many opinions which are both very ancient and very general , which ...
... true . But neither great antiquity , nor commonness , nor the two united , are able to establish the truth of any doctrine , nor even its probability . Because there are many opinions which are both very ancient and very general , which ...
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... true God alone . And how has it been since the time of Christ , and how is it now ? Large portions of the world are involved in heathenism and idolatry to this day , and if the opinion of many Protestants may be believed , one half of ...
... true God alone . And how has it been since the time of Christ , and how is it now ? Large portions of the world are involved in heathenism and idolatry to this day , and if the opinion of many Protestants may be believed , one half of ...
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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.