 | 1832 - 852 pages
...catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face...on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to superiority but His favour ; and, confident of that favour, they despised all... | |
 | 1825 - 570 pages
...Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared...on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to superiority but his favour ; and, confident of that favour, they despised all... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared...race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly fix20 ed. They recognized no title to superiority but his favour ; and, confident of that favour, they... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. 3. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared...on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to superiority but his favor ; and, confident of that favor, they despised all... | |
 | 1844 - 602 pages
...communion of the Independent churches ! AW CHARACTER OF THE PURITANS. By Ле Right Hon. TB Macaitlay. THE Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar...on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to superiority but his favour ; and, confident of that favour, they despised all... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pages
...originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference be10 tween the greatest and meanest of mankind, seemed to vanish, when compared...on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to superiority but His favor ; and confident of that favor, 15 they despised all... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. 3. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared...on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to superiority but his favor ; and, confident of that favor, they despised all... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared...on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to superiority but his favor, and, confident of that favor, they despised all the... | |
 | James William Massie - 1847 - 228 pages
...Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish when compared...on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to superiority but His favour, and confident of that favour, they despised all... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared...on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to superiority but his favor ; and, confident of that favor, they despised all... | |
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Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They... 
