Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year, Volume 4Harper & brothers, 1847 - Natural theology |
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... wants in order to stimulate his dormant powers ; and while Nature , yielding to his judicious labors , is made to supply these wants , new wants are created , and the stimulus to con- tinued exertion is increased . Again Nature is ...
... wants in order to stimulate his dormant powers ; and while Nature , yielding to his judicious labors , is made to supply these wants , new wants are created , and the stimulus to con- tinued exertion is increased . Again Nature is ...
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... wants arise ; and thus man is urged forward , from improvement to improvement , in an increasing ratio , and an interminable series . The chief wants of man , which Providence has em- ployed as agents in this very peculiar system , are ...
... wants arise ; and thus man is urged forward , from improvement to improvement , in an increasing ratio , and an interminable series . The chief wants of man , which Providence has em- ployed as agents in this very peculiar system , are ...
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... want themselves , they little wot of the extremities of hunger and privation , of discontent , of envy , and of longing desire , which are endured and called into exercise amongst their fellow beings , who are a few grades below them in ...
... want themselves , they little wot of the extremities of hunger and privation , of discontent , of envy , and of longing desire , which are endured and called into exercise amongst their fellow beings , who are a few grades below them in ...
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... wants in a degree , while they too often draw forth most painful exhibitions of moral evil . Selfishness , envy ... want , with- out being subdued by them . Yet these are the fruits which God , who penetrates the heart , knows to be in ...
... wants in a degree , while they too often draw forth most painful exhibitions of moral evil . Selfishness , envy ... want , with- out being subdued by them . Yet these are the fruits which God , who penetrates the heart , knows to be in ...
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... want of faith in the Divine care , which was to furnish them meat in the sab- batical year , the Israelites left off the observance of this law , they did not expect that God would reckon with them for their disobedience . Yet , nearly ...
... want of faith in the Divine care , which was to furnish them meat in the sab- batical year , the Israelites left off the observance of this law , they did not expect that God would reckon with them for their disobedience . Yet , nearly ...
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Page 61 - TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 276 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 158 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 191 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...
Page 214 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 101 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 101 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 300 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that boldest the height of the hill. Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Page 369 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 100 - Having then gifts, differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith...