A Treatise on Divine Union: Designed to Point Out Some of the Intimate Relations Between God and Man in the Higher Forms of Religious ExperienceC. H. Peirce, 1851 - 443 pages |
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... called to do , for that cause of Christ , of God , and humanity , which is dearer to me than anything else . And this is a consolation which always attends me , the full belief that the truth will live and do the good which is ...
... called to do , for that cause of Christ , of God , and humanity , which is dearer to me than anything else . And this is a consolation which always attends me , the full belief that the truth will live and do the good which is ...
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... called to endure trials ; but we should not forget that truth emerges safely from its conflicts , and that virtue is not destroyed , but only purified , by suffering . All things will be well , when God dwells in man . Bowdoin College ...
... called to endure trials ; but we should not forget that truth emerges safely from its conflicts , and that virtue is not destroyed , but only purified , by suffering . All things will be well , when God dwells in man . Bowdoin College ...
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... called life . Those who have gone astray from God , just so far as they have lost the divine life , and have sunk into the natural life , are dead . Hence , the expres- sions of the apostle : " And you hath he quickened , who were dead ...
... called life . Those who have gone astray from God , just so far as they have lost the divine life , and have sunk into the natural life , are dead . Hence , the expres- sions of the apostle : " And you hath he quickened , who were dead ...
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... called human greatness begins in time , and is terminated when it has hardly begun to exist . Monuments are erected to its memory , but monuments , as well as that of which they are the memorial , pass away . In the true sense of the ...
... called human greatness begins in time , and is terminated when it has hardly begun to exist . Monuments are erected to its memory , but monuments , as well as that of which they are the memorial , pass away . In the true sense of the ...
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... called great , even in the mitigated and subordinate sense of the term , who repeat in their own existence the true reflec- tion , on a limited scale , of that original and unlimited greatness , which has its source and perfection in ...
... called great , even in the mitigated and subordinate sense of the term , who repeat in their own existence the true reflec- tion , on a limited scale , of that original and unlimited greatness , which has its source and perfection in ...
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Page 189 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 108 - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you ; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so...
Page 328 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Page 302 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Page 369 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 48 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? for ye are the temple of the living God ; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 307 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 172 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed ; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Page 187 - Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore; ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 328 - See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah ; and he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...