Analogies in the Progress of Nature and Grace: Four Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge (being the Hulsean Lectures for 1867), to which are Added Two Sermons Preached Before the British Association in 1866 and 1867 |
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... Regarding however the necessity or the advisa- bility of at present offering any fresh contribution to the exegesis of this difficult portion of the Sacred Scriptures , I shall excuse myself by laying before the reader the opinions of ...
... Regarding however the necessity or the advisa- bility of at present offering any fresh contribution to the exegesis of this difficult portion of the Sacred Scriptures , I shall excuse myself by laying before the reader the opinions of ...
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... student , to see how each fresh accession of human knowledge which God has permitted ( and as I think has in- tended ) His creatures to make , regarding the natu- ral world , not seldom serves also to illustrate and Preface . XXV.
... student , to see how each fresh accession of human knowledge which God has permitted ( and as I think has in- tended ) His creatures to make , regarding the natu- ral world , not seldom serves also to illustrate and Preface . XXV.
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... regarding the func- tions of Faith , and Hope , and Love , and Obedience . Is not Hope the twin - sister of Faith ? And is not Obedience the daughter of Love1 ? And what be- comes of Obedience when Faith is under a cloud ? And in the ...
... regarding the func- tions of Faith , and Hope , and Love , and Obedience . Is not Hope the twin - sister of Faith ? And is not Obedience the daughter of Love1 ? And what be- comes of Obedience when Faith is under a cloud ? And in the ...
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... regarding science and scientific men , may not after all be grounded on an entire mistake . For after all , is it true that the pursuit of science has any inherent tendency to- wards religious scepticism ? I would venture to ask whether ...
... regarding science and scientific men , may not after all be grounded on an entire mistake . For after all , is it true that the pursuit of science has any inherent tendency to- wards religious scepticism ? I would venture to ask whether ...
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... regarding that Eternal Father , Who , even on principles of natural religion alone , is the Prime Cause , and the Governor of that universe , the frame - work of which is the ob- ject of the researches of these thoughtful men . It may ...
... regarding that Eternal Father , Who , even on principles of natural religion alone , is the Prime Cause , and the Governor of that universe , the frame - work of which is the ob- ject of the researches of these thoughtful men . It may ...
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Page 99 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever : nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it : and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 49 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 49 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
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Page 12 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.