The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by R. Aspland]., Volume 7Robert Aspland 1851 |
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... religious policy of our country , -Is it safé , on grounds purely political , to tolerate Catholicism ? The true answer to this question is , that English law takes no cogni- zance of religious principles , but only of overt acts . We ...
... religious policy of our country , -Is it safé , on grounds purely political , to tolerate Catholicism ? The true answer to this question is , that English law takes no cogni- zance of religious principles , but only of overt acts . We ...
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... religious liberty was the bait offered , had the Nonconformists given their aid to the Court , the whole course of events would have been changed ; for in all probability the King for the moment would have triumphed . This act of ...
... religious liberty was the bait offered , had the Nonconformists given their aid to the Court , the whole course of events would have been changed ; for in all probability the King for the moment would have triumphed . This act of ...
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... religions . Such convictions blessedly soften prejudices . IX . Voltaire . I am very glad you are so angry with ... religion is never separated either from reason or sensibility ; and it is from this , I think , her stories must be ...
... religions . Such convictions blessedly soften prejudices . IX . Voltaire . I am very glad you are so angry with ... religion is never separated either from reason or sensibility ; and it is from this , I think , her stories must be ...
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... religion have been darkened , its power has been crippled , and its spirit has been broken and impri- soned , by human error , insomuch that the noblest communication of Heaven has reached many human hearts but with a whispered breath ...
... religion have been darkened , its power has been crippled , and its spirit has been broken and impri- soned , by human error , insomuch that the noblest communication of Heaven has reached many human hearts but with a whispered breath ...
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... religion , and traces its power upon the human heart - a purifying and heaven - directing power - shews how it enters into and forms a constituent part of all human virtue , how it sanctifies all human obligations , how it regulates and ...
... religion , and traces its power upon the human heart - a purifying and heaven - directing power - shews how it enters into and forms a constituent part of all human virtue , how it sanctifies all human obligations , how it regulates and ...
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Page 548 - The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
Page 83 - And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD...
Page 177 - Is it not written in your law, ' I " ' said, Ye are gods ? ' " If he called them gods, unto " whom, the word of God, came, — and the Scripture, cannot " be broken ; — s6 say ye of him, whom the Father, hath " sanctified, and sent into the world, ' Thou blasphemest ; ' " because, I said, I am the Son of God ? 37 If I do not the " works of my Father, believe me not.
Page 641 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page 365 - A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair, and very fair ; Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little maid ! How many...
Page 330 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 488 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Page 647 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 365 - I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality. At that time I was afraid of such processes. In later periods of life I have deplored, as we have all reason to do, a subjugation of an opposite character, and have rejoiced over the remembrances,...
Page 648 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...