The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by R. Aspland]., Volume 6Robert Aspland 1850 |
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... object was to shun and not to reform the world . The ascetic Carthusian was too much occupied with the maceration of his body amidst deserts and mountains , to have leisure to preach the Gospel in villages and towns . The military ...
... object was to shun and not to reform the world . The ascetic Carthusian was too much occupied with the maceration of his body amidst deserts and mountains , to have leisure to preach the Gospel in villages and towns . The military ...
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... object of a passion which acknowledged no restraint either in the vehemence of spirit with which it was cherished , or in the fondness of the language in which it was expressed . It was inevitable that the inhabitant of such a world as ...
... object of a passion which acknowledged no restraint either in the vehemence of spirit with which it was cherished , or in the fondness of the language in which it was expressed . It was inevitable that the inhabitant of such a world as ...
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... object at the same time to prove , that all those whose virtues he has celebrated in his various essays , though members of churches most hostile to each other , held certain great principles in common , and that there is consequently a ...
... object at the same time to prove , that all those whose virtues he has celebrated in his various essays , though members of churches most hostile to each other , held certain great principles in common , and that there is consequently a ...
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... object and centre of all revealed truth ; an incarnation of Deity , towards whom prophets and evangelists alike direct their adoring gaze , who imparts unity of design to the whole compo- sition , and in whom the incommunicable ...
... object and centre of all revealed truth ; an incarnation of Deity , towards whom prophets and evangelists alike direct their adoring gaze , who imparts unity of design to the whole compo- sition , and in whom the incommunicable ...
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... object will be best and most speedily attained by striking out into something which they re- gard as a new and untrodden path : with such , the great and proper object of a Christian minister is little , if at all considered . * " Your ...
... object will be best and most speedily attained by striking out into something which they re- gard as a new and untrodden path : with such , the great and proper object of a Christian minister is little , if at all considered . * " Your ...
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Page 491 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 458 - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Page 606 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Page 439 - Her office there to rear, to teach, Becoming as is meet and fit A link among the days, to knit The generations each with each; And, doubtless, unto thee is given A life that bears immortal fruit In those great offices that suit The full-grown energies of heaven.
Page 74 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 597 - Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets. 3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did...
Page 440 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star...
Page 145 - HEAR this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Page 145 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Page 439 - The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow...