The Corner-stone: Or, A Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian TruthW. Peirce, 1834 - 360 pages |
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... interest of the narrative of the crucifixion . Its moral effect often lost . Three stages of guilt . First stage ; guilty fecl- ing . Second stage ; guilty intentions . Third stage ; guilty action . Illustrations . Sudden acts . God's ...
... interest of the narrative of the crucifixion . Its moral effect often lost . Three stages of guilt . First stage ; guilty fecl- ing . Second stage ; guilty intentions . Third stage ; guilty action . Illustrations . Sudden acts . God's ...
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... Interest at the chap- el . Impression . Singular pian adopted by the students . The evening meeting . The intruders . An enemy turned to a friend . A strange assembly . Success of a bad design . The Hebrew Bible . The President's visit ...
... Interest at the chap- el . Impression . Singular pian adopted by the students . The evening meeting . The intruders . An enemy turned to a friend . A strange assembly . Success of a bad design . The Hebrew Bible . The President's visit ...
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... interest , curiosity and surprise . It was their son . His uncommon mental and moral maturity had by some means shown itself to those around him , and they were deeply interested in his questions and replies . His mother , for the ...
... interest , curiosity and surprise . It was their son . His uncommon mental and moral maturity had by some means shown itself to those around him , and they were deeply interested in his questions and replies . His mother , for the ...
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... interest , he will find teeming with the most abundant proofs of the Creator's benevolence and skill , and the boundless resources of his power . Take for instance , water , which , as it lies before us in a bowl , appears as simple ...
... interest , he will find teeming with the most abundant proofs of the Creator's benevolence and skill , and the boundless resources of his power . Take for instance , water , which , as it lies before us in a bowl , appears as simple ...
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... interest in a power and a skill , so infi- nitely varied in its designs , and so admirable in its ex- ecution . But you can go much farther than this , you can examine even in nature , the moral exhibitions of God's An imaginary walk in ...
... interest in a power and a skill , so infi- nitely varied in its designs , and so admirable in its ex- ecution . But you can go much farther than this , you can examine even in nature , the moral exhibitions of God's An imaginary walk in ...
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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?