Religious DutyW.V. Spencer, 1865 - 326 pages |
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Page 223 - I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 223 - Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Page 151 - Magnificent ! How glorious art thou, Earth ! And, if thou be The shadow of some Spirit lovelier still, — Though evil stain its work, and it should be Like its creation, weak yet beautiful, — I could fall down and worship that and thee.
Page 287 - ... right from its relation to that. This generic choice of good it identifies with the love commanded in the Bible, and the choice itself — that is, the choosing — with that wisdom which the Bible says is " the principal thing." It does not find that the law of God is that we are to do right, but that we are to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, and our neighbor as ourselves, and that to do this is to do right. The contusion from a failure to discriminate the spheres above mentioned...
Page 132 - Whilst you are upon Earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.
Page 280 - What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, — that, in God's name, leave uncredited ; at your peril do not try believing that. No subtlest hocus-pocus of ' reason' versus
Page 151 - The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean. Are bending like corn on the upland lea : And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms, Has made the top of the wave his own...
Page 219 - ... and the wealthy man would have purchased the Bible, but the poor man would not have been able to obtain it. Again, he who knew the language that was expressed by the letters, might have known what was therein contained; but the Scythian, and the Barbarian, and the Indian, and the Egyptian, and all those who were excluded from that language,, would have gone away without receiving any instruction. This however cannot be said with respect to the heavens; but the Scythian, and Barbarian, and Indian,...
Page 30 - ... me, though the Scripture is on my side, to defend myself to my own heart for having dared singly to resist the Pope, and to denounce him as Antichrist! What have been the afflictions of my bosom! How often, in the bitterness of my soul, have I pressed myself with the Papist's argument, — Art thou alone wise? are all others in error? have they been mistaken for so long a time? What if you are yourself mistaken, and are dragging with you so many souls into eternal condemnation? Thus did I reason...
Page 122 - Without a God and without a world, not visible to us now but hoped for, the glorious ideas of morality are indeed objects of applause and admiration , but not springs of purpose and action , because they fail to fulfil all the aims which are natural to every rational being.