The Works of Hannah More, Volume 10T. Cadell, 1830 |
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... reason could ever attain ; and of consequence , more correct ideas of what is required of himself , both with respect to God and man . His ideas may be mean in their expression , compared with the splendid language of the sages of ...
... reason could ever attain ; and of consequence , more correct ideas of what is required of himself , both with respect to God and man . His ideas may be mean in their expression , compared with the splendid language of the sages of ...
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... reason , " says the same great authority above quoted , never yet , from unquestionable prin- ciples or clear deductions , made out an entire body of the law of nature . If a collection could be made of all the moral precepts in the ...
... reason , " says the same great authority above quoted , never yet , from unquestionable prin- ciples or clear deductions , made out an entire body of the law of nature . If a collection could be made of all the moral precepts in the ...
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... reason , to say nothing of religion , made in the first metropolis in the world , when a nail or a play was thought a rational expedient for pa- cifying the gods and stopping the pestilence ? Nor does reason , mere human reason , seem ...
... reason , to say nothing of religion , made in the first metropolis in the world , when a nail or a play was thought a rational expedient for pa- cifying the gods and stopping the pestilence ? Nor does reason , mere human reason , seem ...
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... reason . Others imagined every star to be a god . Some denied not only a su- perintending , but a creating Providence ; in- sisting that the world was made , without any plan or contrivance , by a fortuitous concourse of certain ...
... reason . Others imagined every star to be a god . Some denied not only a su- perintending , but a creating Providence ; in- sisting that the world was made , without any plan or contrivance , by a fortuitous concourse of certain ...
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... a system to the mind of Aristotle , which their respective , though differ- ently pursued , careers of ambition utterly failed of furnishing to either ? - Reason , even by those who possessed it in 14 MORALITY OF PAGANISM .
... a system to the mind of Aristotle , which their respective , though differ- ently pursued , careers of ambition utterly failed of furnishing to either ? - Reason , even by those who possessed it in 14 MORALITY OF PAGANISM .
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Page 80 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 152 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead...
Page 152 - That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.
Page 295 - Behold I show you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again ; but we shall not all be changed : in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet ; for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible ; and we shall be changed.
Page 349 - My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
Page 153 - Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us ; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men : 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always : for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Page 81 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you: and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 173 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 141 - In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works : in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page 318 - But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.