The age of the great patriarchs from Adam to Jacob, Volume 1Sunday School Union, 1880 - Bible |
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... faith . Ordinary 5. The Theory of Ordinary , as opposed to Extraordi- inspiration . nary Inspiration . This regards inspiration as a thing en- tirely subordinate in the Divine economy . The action of the Holy Spirit , as exercised in ...
... faith . Ordinary 5. The Theory of Ordinary , as opposed to Extraordi- inspiration . nary Inspiration . This regards inspiration as a thing en- tirely subordinate in the Divine economy . The action of the Holy Spirit , as exercised in ...
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... faith may well qualify reason , and reason tone the possible extravagances of faith . " With the heart man believeth . " in harmony . man reasons . With the mind But God has set heart and mind in harmonious relations within us , and ...
... faith may well qualify reason , and reason tone the possible extravagances of faith . " With the heart man believeth . " in harmony . man reasons . With the mind But God has set heart and mind in harmonious relations within us , and ...
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... faith to Newton , and Herschell , and Huxley , and Tyndall ; and quite wrong to pin our faith to one Jesus Christ , one Paul , one John , who manifestly had quite as adequate means of knowing the facts which they record as any ...
... faith to Newton , and Herschell , and Huxley , and Tyndall ; and quite wrong to pin our faith to one Jesus Christ , one Paul , one John , who manifestly had quite as adequate means of knowing the facts which they record as any ...
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... faith as we Christians are . " We should , as Christians , be absolutely fearless of all accurate and adequate statements of facts related to God's world of the seen . We should be ready to listen , receptively , to any man who can tell ...
... faith as we Christians are . " We should , as Christians , be absolutely fearless of all accurate and adequate statements of facts related to God's world of the seen . We should be ready to listen , receptively , to any man who can tell ...
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... faith wherewith we are imbued , yield different meanings , let us not by any hasty affirmations so precipitate ourselves into any one of them that , if a more diligent discussion of the truth should really shake it , we should fall with ...
... faith wherewith we are imbued , yield different meanings , let us not by any hasty affirmations so precipitate ourselves into any one of them that , if a more diligent discussion of the truth should really shake it , we should fall with ...
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Page 27 - 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 81 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 264 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, "of whom it was said, 'That in Isaac shall thy seed be called/ "accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 115 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 74 - We could not choose but look on still ; Since there is no place so alone The which he doth not fill. Sundays the pillars are, On which heaven's palace arched lies : The other days fill up the spare And hollow room with vanities. They are the fruitful beds and borders In God's rich garden : that is bare Which parts their ranks and orders.
Page 71 - But although the night apparently equalizes the circulation well, yet it does not sufficiently restore its balance for the attainment of a long life. Hence one day in seven, by the bounty of Providence, is thrown in as a day of compensation, to perfect, by its repose, the animal system.
Page 148 - Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Page 244 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 42 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 77 - Droop not though shame, sin, and anguish are round thee ; Bravely fling off the cold chain that hath bound thee, Look to yon pure heaven smiling beyond thee ; Rest not content in thy darkness — a clod. Work for some good, be it ever so slowly ; Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly ; Labor ! all labor is noble and holy ; Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.