Unity in variety: a series of arguments based on the divine workmanship in our planet; the constitution of the human mind; and the inspired history of religion |
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... testimony of the Scripture itself goes to prove that the gross corruptions of God's ancient people were , in some degree , traceable to the fact that " they regarded not the Works of the Lord , nor the operations of His hands . " They ...
... testimony of the Scripture itself goes to prove that the gross corruptions of God's ancient people were , in some degree , traceable to the fact that " they regarded not the Works of the Lord , nor the operations of His hands . " They ...
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... TESTIMONY to the same loving kindness . It is out of the power of man to conceive any testimony more free from question . Now , suppose this testimony came down to us in another way . Suppose , for a moment , that in the early history ...
... TESTIMONY to the same loving kindness . It is out of the power of man to conceive any testimony more free from question . Now , suppose this testimony came down to us in another way . Suppose , for a moment , that in the early history ...
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... testimony came down to us through that channel . Suppose we had a continuous and exclusive religious corporation , with an unmarried priesthood , cut off from the sympathies and feelings of Nature , and of society around them ! selling ...
... testimony came down to us through that channel . Suppose we had a continuous and exclusive religious corporation , with an unmarried priesthood , cut off from the sympathies and feelings of Nature , and of society around them ! selling ...
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... testimony . The cement that binds these individuals together renders their evidence of little or no value . In fact , the Unity of which you seem so much en- amoured , is the essential characteristics of all outcasts from society , who ...
... testimony . The cement that binds these individuals together renders their evidence of little or no value . In fact , the Unity of which you seem so much en- amoured , is the essential characteristics of all outcasts from society , who ...
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... testimony of such a cloud of witnesses as is presented to us by the Divine arrangement . Here are men of every caste , condition , and climate , who never saw each other's faces , ignorant of each other's thoughts , having no earthly ...
... testimony of such a cloud of witnesses as is presented to us by the Divine arrangement . Here are men of every caste , condition , and climate , who never saw each other's faces , ignorant of each other's thoughts , having no earthly ...
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Popular passages
Page 147 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 125 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 75 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess without confession that His 'glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our capacity and reach.
Page 105 - GOD, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations.
Page 105 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 36 - And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name ; and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us. 50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not : for he that is not against us is for us.
Page 139 - Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let Reason, late, instruct mankind : Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns aerial on the waving tree.
Page 136 - Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth...
Page 122 - Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: 3 Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 3 - Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.