 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - 418 pages
...immaterial being j and it is the ufe of that in us, which is the higheft and nobleft of our faculties. For the fpirit in man. is the candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and a light to direct us unto him, as we read, Afls xvii. 27. 2dfy. The veneration of relicbs ; a very... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1872 - 530 pages
...to be throughout rational in what they do ; for these things have a divine foundation. Tlie spirit in man is the candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting man to God. . . . Therefore, to speak of natural light, of the use of reason in religion, is to do... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold Allen - 1884 - 484 pages
...between the grace of God and the use of the reason. Rationality had a divine foundation. " The spirit in man is the candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting man to God." To go against reason, therefore, was to go against God, for reason was the very voice... | |
 | John Henry Overton - 1885 - 426 pages
...alien. (History of My Own Times, book ii. under year 1661.) • Whichcote, Aphorism 459. ' The spirit in man is the candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting man to God.' Ac. (Sermon). ' Tulloch's Rational Thtology &o., ii. 135. 4 Henry More. * John Smith's... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1901 - 388 pages
...Judgment : one free-spirited man is, in this particular, equal to a whole Faction. The Spirit of a Man is the Candle of the Lord ; Lighted by God, and Lighting us to God. Res illuminata, illuminans. The Sense of the Church is not a Rule ; but a thing Ruled. The... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1904 - 316 pages
...disparage reason, or play tricks with it, or think of it as an irreligious faculty. " The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord lighted by God, and lighting us to God." Secondly, we cannot promise to be impartial ; we can only promise to be candid. Let us... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1905 - 312 pages
...disparage reason, or play tricks with it, or think of it as an irreligious faculty. " The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord lighted by God, and lighting us to God." Secondly, we cannot promise to be impartial ; we can only promise to be candid. Let us... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1908 - 512 pages
...aimed at the construction of a body of ' moral divinity.' The sayings of Whichcote that ' the spirit in man is the candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting man to God ' ; that religion is ' a seed of deiform nature,' and that Heaven is first a temper and... | |
 | James Mann Campbell - 1908 - 316 pages
...Platonists were right in contending that to go against reason is to go against God ; that " the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting man to God;" and that man's very intuitions are " rooted in the latent reason." Nor are reason and... | |
 | James Mann Campbell - 1908 - 316 pages
...Platonists were right in contending that to go against reason is to go against God ; that " the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting man to God;" and that man's very intuitions are " rooted in the latent reason." Nor are reason and... | |
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... to be throughout rational in what they do ; for these things have a Divine foundation. The spirit in man is the Candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting men to God. 
