The New Science; Or, Mento-Theology: The Parables for the Clergy, But Intelligence for the People. [the New Science as Based Upon Axioms Instead of Parables Including a Key to the Mysteries of the New Testament, with a Revelation on Faith Addressed to the Era of Civilization.]

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Johnson & Herbert, 1858 - Eccentric literature - 376 pages

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Page 41 - If a teacher, though a genins, would attempt to "prove all things and hold fast to that which is good," he would keep on all through life proving things and would have no time to "hold fast.
Page 296 - Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Page 70 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 323 - Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 325 - like the baseless fabric of a vision, and left not a wreck behind ;" so thoroughly had nine-tenths of them taken up their abode in the bread basket (vide Jon Bee) of the Man-Mountain ; the remaining tenth sufficed for the rest of the company, viz.
Page 71 - NO man can serve two masters : for either ho will hate the one, and love the other ; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Page 264 - I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall not pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 207 - I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me. For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man : But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members. Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death...
Page 296 - ... instruction; but if possessed of the advantages of education, nothing but an evil, an upbraiding conscience, can make him miserable. In the city, or the desert; in a palace, or a cottage; in robes, or in rags; standing on land, or rolling on the ocean; buried amid the snows of Iceland, or burning beneath the fervors of the torrid zone, he has resources of which he can be deprived only by the Power that conferred them. Beggared by misfortune, exiled by friends, abjured by society, and deprived...
Page 2 - With us it has been abundantly proved that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations.

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