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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... evil , because he has faith in the rectitude of his intentions , and has no fear in regard to any of his acts that wrong will or can be done by them . And , above all , it is faith in himself as having power in himself to sustain the ...
... evil , because he has faith in the rectitude of his intentions , and has no fear in regard to any of his acts that wrong will or can be done by them . And , above all , it is faith in himself as having power in himself to sustain the ...
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... evil of the world , but the seed or parent of all other evil . It is the only sin by which a man , who is in a state of union with God , can be sep- arated from God in the first instance , although many other sins will follow from it ...
... evil of the world , but the seed or parent of all other evil . It is the only sin by which a man , who is in a state of union with God , can be sep- arated from God in the first instance , although many other sins will follow from it ...
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... evil , so the prin- ciple of thought , subject only to a divine guidance , is left free to range everywhere , and to select and to delight itself in everything which can be thought of . 3. With these negative remarks , that the divine ...
... evil , so the prin- ciple of thought , subject only to a divine guidance , is left free to range everywhere , and to select and to delight itself in everything which can be thought of . 3. With these negative remarks , that the divine ...
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... evil as well as the good , sinners as well as saints . Another characteristic of holy love is , that it is attract- ive ; that is to say , its beauty is so divine , that , by its own nature , it arrests the attention , and draws 96 ...
... evil as well as the good , sinners as well as saints . Another characteristic of holy love is , that it is attract- ive ; that is to say , its beauty is so divine , that , by its own nature , it arrests the attention , and draws 96 ...
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... evil , because evil can never be the foundation of love , but because they were existences , percipient and moral existences . He saw them created with the elements of an eternal being , but destitute , in their fallen state , of those ...
... evil , because evil can never be the foundation of love , but because they were existences , percipient and moral existences . He saw them created with the elements of an eternal being , but destitute , in their fallen state , of those ...
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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...