 To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship,...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 85edited by - 1780Full view - About this book
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pages
...sons of heaven." tentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Life of Addison. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
 | Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pages
...And dates her letters from thy face, When she doth write.— -G. Herbert. CHURCH.- -Belonging to no To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are dutant, and which is animated only by faith and Impe, will glide by degrees out of the mind. unless... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Life of Addiion. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 pages
...losing it. — Life. Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea, 1770. ^ Religion of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and re-impressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Crafts - 1885 - 660 pages
...buried in the same grave. In the words of Dr. Johnson : " Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by externa ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...Works, v. 239, Church: To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pages
...be like a dream in a fever, busy and turbulent, but confused and indistinct. Works, v. 239. Church: To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 pages
...depths : all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason. Coleridge. Religion. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the inind, unless... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1891 - 582 pages
...Johnson, in his strong and rugged fashion, "is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and re-impressed by external ordinances and stated calls to worship and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...know rather what he was not, than what he was. He was not of the Church of Eome ; he was not of the 10 Church of England. To be of no church, is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
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