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Side vii
... error ard sin . This is the aspect , under which it appears to most men ; and so strong is the common feeling of ... error in re- ligion , and of error among the most devout . I refer to the tendency of fervent minds , to fix their ...
... error ard sin . This is the aspect , under which it appears to most men ; and so strong is the common feeling of ... error in re- ligion , and of error among the most devout . I refer to the tendency of fervent minds , to fix their ...
Side ix
... error in religion has arisen from throwing a part of them into obscurity . In most religious systems , the tendency has been to seize exclusively on the idea of the Infinite , and to sacri- fice to this the finite , the created , the ...
... error in religion has arisen from throwing a part of them into obscurity . In most religious systems , the tendency has been to seize exclusively on the idea of the Infinite , and to sacri- fice to this the finite , the created , the ...
Side x
... error . To admit all the elements of truth into our system , at once to adore the infinity of God and to give due importance to our own free moral nature , is no very easy work . But it must be done . Man's free activity is as important ...
... error . To admit all the elements of truth into our system , at once to adore the infinity of God and to give due importance to our own free moral nature , is no very easy work . But it must be done . Man's free activity is as important ...
Side xiii
... errors , is the attempt to exalt God , by making him the sole cause , the sole agent in the universe , by denying to the creature freedom of will and moral power , by making man a mere recipient and transmitter of a foreign impulse ...
... errors , is the attempt to exalt God , by making him the sole cause , the sole agent in the universe , by denying to the creature freedom of will and moral power , by making man a mere recipient and transmitter of a foreign impulse ...
Side xiv
... errors have grown out of the religious tendencies of the mind . So necessary is it to keep watch over our whole nature , to subject the highest sentiments to the calm , conscientious reason . Men starting from the idea of God , have ...
... errors have grown out of the religious tendencies of the mind . So necessary is it to keep watch over our whole nature , to subject the highest sentiments to the calm , conscientious reason . Men starting from the idea of God , have ...
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Side 28 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Side 322 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Side 318 - Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore ; for it is holy unto you : every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death : for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Side 50 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy, and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her...
Side 28 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with ^cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Side 14 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes. And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Side 50 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom 'All things proceed, and up to him return, < If not depraved from good ; created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Side 321 - And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Side 35 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
Side 49 - That man is a living being, intrinsically and properly one and individual, not compound or separable, not, according to the common opinion, made up and framed of two distinct and different natures, as of soul and body, — but the whole man is soul, and the soul man, that is to say, a body, or substance individual, animated, sensitive, and rational.'— Vol.1, pp.