Endless Punishment: Its Origin and Grounds Examined : with Other DiscoursesC. L. Stickney, 1845 - 252 pages |
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... true . What reception , think you , such an argument would meet with among enlightened christians ? Would they be convinced by it , and renounce christianity ? Would they not rather smile and reply - If all the world were polytheists ...
... true . What reception , think you , such an argument would meet with among enlightened christians ? Would they be convinced by it , and renounce christianity ? Would they not rather smile and reply - If all the world were polytheists ...
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... true religion —a kind of monstrous birth , showing the results of ignorance under the instinctive impulses of man's religious nature . This I readily admit . But is not the doctrine of endless punishment in like manner to be regarded as ...
... true religion —a kind of monstrous birth , showing the results of ignorance under the instinctive impulses of man's religious nature . This I readily admit . But is not the doctrine of endless punishment in like manner to be regarded as ...
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... true because God is a moral governor and we are conscious of deserving punishment . But let me take another illustration . There is , as we all know , scarcely any opinion more preva- lent in the world than that which relates to witch ...
... true because God is a moral governor and we are conscious of deserving punishment . But let me take another illustration . There is , as we all know , scarcely any opinion more preva- lent in the world than that which relates to witch ...
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... true ? On the contrary must they not be regarded as eminently false ? Whence then did they spring . They must have had an origin ; and the man who denies or doubts them , is as much obliged to explain their ori- gin , as we are to ...
... true ? On the contrary must they not be regarded as eminently false ? Whence then did they spring . They must have had an origin ; and the man who denies or doubts them , is as much obliged to explain their ori- gin , as we are to ...
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... . And the real difficulty to be explained seems to me to be , not how the doctrine of endless torments came to prevail among the heathen , but how , if it be true , they happened to be so highly blessed 24 ORIGIN OF ENDLESS PUNISHMENT .
... . And the real difficulty to be explained seems to me to be , not how the doctrine of endless torments came to prevail among the heathen , but how , if it be true , they happened to be so highly blessed 24 ORIGIN OF ENDLESS PUNISHMENT .
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Page 60 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 182 - Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 60 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Page 171 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 29 - And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Page 148 - Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Page 148 - Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 61 - Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat. All shall come back; each tie Of pure affection shall be knit again; Alone shall Evil die, And Sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign.
Page 108 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 208 - and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.