A Series of Discourses on the Christian RevelationJ. Smith and son, 1817 - 275 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... called the infidelity of natural science ; if possible to bring over to the humility of the Gospel , those who expa- tiate with delight on the wonders and the sub- limities of creation ; and to convince them that a loftier wisdom still ...
... called the infidelity of natural science ; if possible to bring over to the humility of the Gospel , those who expa- tiate with delight on the wonders and the sub- limities of creation ; and to convince them that a loftier wisdom still ...
Pagina 24
... called to the exercise , and astronomy may now be looked upon as the most certain and best established of the sciences . We all know that every visible object appears less in magnitude as it recedes from the eye . The lofty vessel , as ...
... called to the exercise , and astronomy may now be looked upon as the most certain and best established of the sciences . We all know that every visible object appears less in magnitude as it recedes from the eye . The lofty vessel , as ...
Pagina 28
... called the light day , and the darkness he has called night . He has said , let there be lights in the firmament of their heaven , to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs , and for seasons , and for days , and for ...
... called the light day , and the darkness he has called night . He has said , let there be lights in the firmament of their heaven , to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs , and for seasons , and for days , and for ...
Pagina 29
... called into being merely for the amusement of a few astronomers ? Shall we measure the counsels of heaven by the nar- row impotence of the human faculties ? or con- ceive , that silence and solitude reign throughout the mighty empire of ...
... called into being merely for the amusement of a few astronomers ? Shall we measure the counsels of heaven by the nar- row impotence of the human faculties ? or con- ceive , that silence and solitude reign throughout the mighty empire of ...
Pagina 40
... called into existence for no other purpose than to throw a tide of useless splendour over the solitudes of immensity ? Our sun is only one of these lumi- naries , and we know that he has worlds in his train . Why should we strip the ...
... called into existence for no other purpose than to throw a tide of useless splendour over the solitudes of immensity ? Our sun is only one of these lumi- naries , and we know that he has worlds in his train . Why should we strip the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 270 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Pagina 265 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Pagina 264 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Pagina 271 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Pagina 274 - Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Pagina 256 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Pagina 270 - I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Pagina 266 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness : but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night...
Pagina 258 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Pagina 150 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.