The unseen universe; or, Physical speculations on a future state [by B. Stewart and P.G. Tait].1875 |
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... invisible , 85 64 THE UNIVERSE , — 86 65 Similar errors committed by the extreme schools of theology and science , . 87 66 Application of this principle to Immortality— Three conceivable suppositions , . 88 These reduced to two , 89 ...
... invisible , 85 64 THE UNIVERSE , — 86 65 Similar errors committed by the extreme schools of theology and science , . 87 66 Application of this principle to Immortality— Three conceivable suppositions , . 88 These reduced to two , 89 ...
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... invisible , ever - present , ever- living God . We do not , however , mean to assert that Moses got his religious notions from Egypt , but we think it possible that his mind may have been prepared by the failure of the Egyptian system ...
... invisible , ever - present , ever- living God . We do not , however , mean to assert that Moses got his religious notions from Egypt , but we think it possible that his mind may have been prepared by the failure of the Egyptian system ...
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... invisible world containing spiritual intelligences , some of whom were the loyal servants and messengers of God ; while others delighted in the endea- vour to thwart His counsels , and were in rebellion against Him . Apparently both ...
... invisible world containing spiritual intelligences , some of whom were the loyal servants and messengers of God ; while others delighted in the endea- vour to thwart His counsels , and were in rebellion against Him . Apparently both ...
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... invisible world . Whilst all the Christian Churches believe in one God , yet by most of them the Godhead is believed to consist of three persons , the Father , the Son , and the Holy Ghost . The first of these appears to be regarded as ...
... invisible world . Whilst all the Christian Churches believe in one God , yet by most of them the Godhead is believed to consist of three persons , the Father , the Son , and the Holy Ghost . The first of these appears to be regarded as ...
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... invisible hierarchy of angels , two Divine Persons , who work through and by the Universe . One great object of the second Person of the Trinity is held to be the manifestation of God to man , and possibly to other beings , in a manner ...
... invisible hierarchy of angels , two Divine Persons , who work through and by the Universe . One great object of the second Person of the Trinity is held to be the manifestation of God to man , and possibly to other beings , in a manner ...
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Page 24 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from another star in glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead.
Page 203 - And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment; and he saith unto him, Friend, how earnest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 118 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 151 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Page 152 - I WAGE not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face ; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one.
Page 14 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 150 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 35 - To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
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Page 201 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.