The Corner-stone: Or, A Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian TruthW. Peirce, 1834 - 360 pages |
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... Circumstances excluded . Principles . Moral effect to be secured . No dispute on this subject . Principies universally applicable . Formalists . No denomination free . Liberality . Difference of opinion unavoidable . Case supposed ...
... Circumstances excluded . Principles . Moral effect to be secured . No dispute on this subject . Principies universally applicable . Formalists . No denomination free . Liberality . Difference of opinion unavoidable . Case supposed ...
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... circumstances which form a channel for its most advantageous communication , have varied in every period of history , and in every nation of men and we are called to adore the wisdom and goodness of God , which have qualified human ...
... circumstances which form a channel for its most advantageous communication , have varied in every period of history , and in every nation of men and we are called to adore the wisdom and goodness of God , which have qualified human ...
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... circumstances of persons ; —in parental disci- pline , schools and colleges , the public ministry ; — the happiness , the peculiar temptations , and the duties of genuine converts ; - the dread- ful condition of those who become only ...
... circumstances of persons ; —in parental disci- pline , schools and colleges , the public ministry ; — the happiness , the peculiar temptations , and the duties of genuine converts ; - the dread- ful condition of those who become only ...
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... circumstances of all ages and nations differ from each other , and so their genius , habits and character , are different , it follows that the external form in which Christianity is embodied , may and ought to be varied , yet with ...
... circumstances of all ages and nations differ from each other , and so their genius , habits and character , are different , it follows that the external form in which Christianity is embodied , may and ought to be varied , yet with ...
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... circumstances have contributed to strengthen thein . For some of those circumstances , of no trivial power to confirm prejudice , we have to blame ourselves . This is a state of things full of mischief and danger . Surely it is a ...
... circumstances have contributed to strengthen thein . For some of those circumstances , of no trivial power to confirm prejudice , we have to blame ourselves . This is a state of things full of mischief and danger . Surely it is a ...
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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?