The Corner-stone: Or, A Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian TruthW. Peirce, 1834 - 360 pages |
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... brought them forward in this volume ; for it is the elements only of Christianity , which I mean here to teach . It is not my aim to advance the science of theology , but to disseminate its acknowledged principles ; and I have ...
... brought them forward in this volume ; for it is the elements only of Christianity , which I mean here to teach . It is not my aim to advance the science of theology , but to disseminate its acknowledged principles ; and I have ...
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... brought forward . Free conversation . Truths adduced . His testimony respecting himself . Philip's question . The way to approach the Deity . Moral dependence . Ye have not chosen me . The vine and the branches . Union with Christ . The ...
... brought forward . Free conversation . Truths adduced . His testimony respecting himself . Philip's question . The way to approach the Deity . Moral dependence . Ye have not chosen me . The vine and the branches . Union with Christ . The ...
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... brought to me by the reading of the volume to which I am now presuming to prefix a recommenda- tion . I scarcely knew of its existence , when a request , indicating deep anxiety , was made for an opinion on its merits or demerits Not a ...
... brought to me by the reading of the volume to which I am now presuming to prefix a recommenda- tion . I scarcely knew of its existence , when a request , indicating deep anxiety , was made for an opinion on its merits or demerits Not a ...
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... brought into view , our duty to man and to God binds us to be fellow - helpers to the truth , ” in trying to extend the application , and so to multiply the use- fulness of such instruments . " " The excursive and familiar structure of ...
... brought into view , our duty to man and to God binds us to be fellow - helpers to the truth , ” in trying to extend the application , and so to multiply the use- fulness of such instruments . " " The excursive and familiar structure of ...
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... brought into view by them . They are most striking exhibitions it is true , but they are exhibitions of cold intellect only , after all . The splendor of the evening sky , the sublimity of a tempest , the exquisite delicacy of structure ...
... brought into view by them . They are most striking exhibitions it is true , but they are exhibitions of cold intellect only , after all . The splendor of the evening sky , the sublimity of a tempest , the exquisite delicacy of structure ...
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Page 219 - And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night : for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
Page 189 - Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Page xviii - No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Page 199 - And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name ; and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us. 50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not : for he that is not against us, is for us.
Page 191 - I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away : and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Page 21 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.
Page 168 - After asserting that the blood of bulls and of goats could not take away sin, he adds, Then said I, Lo I come to do thy will, O God.
Page 171 - Children, taught as they should be from early infancy, know and feel that it is an evil and bitter thing to sin against God, and that wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace. "Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Page 197 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. ... He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me...
Page 189 - Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?