The Works of Samuel Parr, Ll.D. ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence,Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green., 1828 |
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... produce , a divine interposition . For while there is any proof , we have no right to presume that it is impertinent — if there be any occasion , we see too little of the pro- portion between means and ends to pronounce it utterly ...
... produce , a divine interposition . For while there is any proof , we have no right to presume that it is impertinent — if there be any occasion , we see too little of the pro- portion between means and ends to pronounce it utterly ...
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... produce its beneficial effects completely and at once ; and we may , without impropriety , compare it to the mustard seed , in the slowness as well as the height of its growth . That the religious schemes of God bear so strik- ing a ...
... produce its beneficial effects completely and at once ; and we may , without impropriety , compare it to the mustard seed , in the slowness as well as the height of its growth . That the religious schemes of God bear so strik- ing a ...
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... producing that humble docility of mind , which , in the first ages of the Gospel , was eminently and peculiarly a requisite qualification * I am here speaking of the light of nature , as it exists , where no revelation is known . But ...
... producing that humble docility of mind , which , in the first ages of the Gospel , was eminently and peculiarly a requisite qualification * I am here speaking of the light of nature , as it exists , where no revelation is known . But ...
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... produce equal proofs for some other period that was more fit . I now proceed to obviate the second objection , which , as you may remember , was levelled against the partial propagation of the Gospel . We may observe both of this and of ...
... produce equal proofs for some other period that was more fit . I now proceed to obviate the second objection , which , as you may remember , was levelled against the partial propagation of the Gospel . We may observe both of this and of ...
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... which human wisdom can neither produce nor foresee . But the number of converts would have been , in all probability , not considerable , if any inference may be drawn from the slow and interrupted progress which Christianity 36 SERMON I.
... which human wisdom can neither produce nor foresee . But the number of converts would have been , in all probability , not considerable , if any inference may be drawn from the slow and interrupted progress which Christianity 36 SERMON I.
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Page 422 - Let it be allowed, though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist in affection to and pursuit of what is right and good, as such; yet, that when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify to ourselves this or any other pursuit, till we are convinced that it will be for our happiness, or, at least, not contrary to it.
Page 515 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, 1 than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 515 - The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgment, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld ; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them...
Page 471 - There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received. Therefore care would be had that, as it fareth in ill purgings, the good be not taken away with the bad, which commonly is done when the people is the reformer.
Page 402 - I yield thee most hearty thanks that thou hast given me life thus long to finish this work to the glory of thy name!
Page 379 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing...
Page 648 - And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them ; remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.
Page 585 - I mean the GENIUS of the place. It is a sort of inspiring deity, which every youth of quick sensibility and ingenious disposition creates to himself, by reflecting that he is placed under those venerable walls where a HOOKER and a HAMMOND, a BACON and a NEWTON, once pursued the same course of science, and from whence they soared to the most elevated heights of literary fame.
Page 284 - And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Nay ; but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.