The History of the Supernatural in All Ages and Nations and in All Churches, Christian and Pagan: Demonstrating a Universal Faith, Bind 2

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J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 473 sider
 

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Side 17 - THE awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us, visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower...
Side 449 - Wonder not then, what GOD for you saw good If I refuse not, but convert, as you, To proper substance: time may come, when men With angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare: And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit...
Side 280 - WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.
Side 88 - Amen, amen I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the Father.
Side 343 - The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
Side 135 - But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.
Side 297 - Shoemaker, was one of those, to whom, under ruder or purer form, the Divine Idea of the Universe is pleased to manifest itself; and, across all the hulls of Ignorance and earthly Degradation, shine through, in unspeakable Awfulness, unspeakable Beauty, on their souls: who therefore are rightly accounted Prophets...
Side 142 - ... that he even lies under the contrary imputation of atheism and profaneness; the persons from whose authority he related the miracle, of established character for judgment and...
Side 415 - I have been called to a holy office by the Lord himself, who most graciously manifested himself in person to me his servant in the year 1743 ; when he opened my sight to the view of the spiritual world, and granted me the privilege of conversing with spirits and angels, which I enjoy to this day.
Side 283 - But the same day, as I was in the midst of a game of cat,* and having struck it one blow from the hole, just as I was about to strike it a second time, a voice did suddenly dart from heaven into my soul, which said, ' Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven ? or have thy sins and go to hell...

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