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... Divine Being . I have shewn that he is equally present in all places throughout the whole extent of infinite space . This doctrine is so agreeable to reason , that we meet with it in the writings of the enlightened heathens , as I might ...
... Divine Being . I have shewn that he is equally present in all places throughout the whole extent of infinite space . This doctrine is so agreeable to reason , that we meet with it in the writings of the enlightened heathens , as I might ...
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... Divine Being , as he inhabits infinitude , as he dwells among his works , as he is present to the mind of man , and as he discovers himself in a more glorious manner among the regions of the blest . Such a consideration should be kept ...
... Divine Being , as he inhabits infinitude , as he dwells among his works , as he is present to the mind of man , and as he discovers himself in a more glorious manner among the regions of the blest . Such a consideration should be kept ...
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... divine air into it , restored it safe to its for- mer repository ; and , having sewed me up , we began to examine the chest . The hearts were all enclosed in transparent phials , and preserved in a liquor which looked like spirits of ...
... divine air into it , restored it safe to its for- mer repository ; and , having sewed me up , we began to examine the chest . The hearts were all enclosed in transparent phials , and preserved in a liquor which looked like spirits of ...
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... divine pleasure ; nor could the commendations , which a person receives for benefits done upon sel- fish views , be at all more satisfactory than when he is applauded for what he doth without design ; be- cause in both cases the ends of ...
... divine pleasure ; nor could the commendations , which a person receives for benefits done upon sel- fish views , be at all more satisfactory than when he is applauded for what he doth without design ; be- cause in both cases the ends of ...
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... divine ex- istence , where it tells us , that he is the same yes- terday , to - day , and for ever ; that he is the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the ending ; that a thousand years are with him as one day , and one day as a ...
... divine ex- istence , where it tells us , that he is the same yes- terday , to - day , and for ever ; that he is the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the ending ; that a thousand years are with him as one day , and one day as a ...
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Page 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 256 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 114 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Page 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Page 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Page 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...