Bishop Butler, a Religious Philosopher for All Time: A Sketch of His Life with an Examination of the AnalogyAppleton, 1889 - 131 sider |
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Side 77 - And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence, God operates in the very same manner, as in the dispensation of Christianity : making one thing subservient to another; this, to somewhat further; and so on, through a progressive series of means, which extend, both backward and forward, beyond our...
Side 21 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Side 77 - However, thus much is manifest, that the whole natural world and government of it is a scheme or system ; not a fixed, but a progressive one : a scheme, in which the operation of various means takes up a great length of time, before the ends they tend to can be attained. The change of seasons, the ripening of the fruits of the earth, the very history of a flower, is an instance of this : and so is human life.
Side 41 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Side 126 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Side 122 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Side 23 - Durham he conciliated all hearts. In advanced years he retained the same genuine modesty and native sweetness of disposition which had distinguished him in youth, and in retirement. During the performance of the sacred office, a divine animation seemed to pervade his whole manner, and lighted up his pale, wan countenance, already marked with the progress of disease : like a torch glimmering in its socket, yet bright and useful to the last.
Side 104 - Let us then, instead of that idle and not very innocent employment of forming imaginary models of a world, and schemes of governing it...
Side 82 - The heavens and the earth which are now are kept in store, reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men.
Side 32 - Though I have endeavoured to avoid sin, and to please God to the utmost of my power, yet, from the consciousness of perpetual infirmities, I am still afraid to die.