 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...wh oh is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it;...sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 604 pages
...the energies of truth in the hands of the great sanctifier. "The first creature of God, in the work 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" If the study of divine things is not a blessing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and gard of the rareness of circumstance, that I find...Xenophon the philosopher, who went from Socrates's sc sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. MAGICIANS AND WITCH FOLK. "FASCINATION," saith Henry Cornelius Agrippa, in the fiftieth chapter of... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 1854 - 778 pages
...highest types of excellence. CMC (To be continued in our next.) THE THREE LIGHTS. THE first creation of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense (Gen. i. 3) ; the last was the light of reason (Gen. ii. 7.) ; and His Sabbath work, ever since, is... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...are his remarks on the subject of truth. " The knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it,...sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First, he breathed light upon the face... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - Presbyterian Church - 1855 - 330 pages
...is the love-making or wooing of it — the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it — and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it —...of human nature. The first creature of God in the work of days was the light of sense; the last was the light of reason, and His Sabbath-work ever since... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - Truth - 1855 - 340 pages
...the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God in the work of days was the light of sense ; the last was the light of reason, and His Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of His Spirit." The last consideration which I shall adduce, in order to... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...which is the lovemaking, or wooing, of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ;...sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it,...the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; 8 the last was the light of reason ; * and his 1 Perhaps he was thinking of St. Augustine. — See... | |
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... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. 
