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Had it , I am sure I should have confidently appealed to your moral courage for an
answer ; for you had always shown that you could act on what you felt right ,
without minding what others said . " ( To be continued . ) THE MODERN PULPIT ...
Had it , I am sure I should have confidently appealed to your moral courage for an
answer ; for you had always shown that you could act on what you felt right ,
without minding what others said . " ( To be continued . ) THE MODERN PULPIT ...
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It is more than knowledge , which , even if it be complete and accurate , may fail
to govern the moral nature . It is more than obedience to a moral code , because
such obedience , if sufficiently complete to be religious , already implies relations
...
It is more than knowledge , which , even if it be complete and accurate , may fail
to govern the moral nature . It is more than obedience to a moral code , because
such obedience , if sufficiently complete to be religious , already implies relations
...
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... of individual men , while Pantheism virtually denies His existence , at the same
time that it palliates and excuses moral ... and then adverts to that distinct
revelation of the Most High , especially in His moral glories , which has been
given in ...
... of individual men , while Pantheism virtually denies His existence , at the same
time that it palliates and excuses moral ... and then adverts to that distinct
revelation of the Most High , especially in His moral glories , which has been
given in ...
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Can He not then provide for the freedom of His action without violating its order ?
Can He not supersede a lower rule of working by the intervention of a higher ? If
He really works at all , — if something that is neither moral nor intelligent las not ...
Can He not then provide for the freedom of His action without violating its order ?
Can He not supersede a lower rule of working by the intervention of a higher ? If
He really works at all , — if something that is neither moral nor intelligent las not ...
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... fancied barrier of inexorable law ; and , as the mist clears off , beyond there is
the throne of the Moral King of the universe , in whose eyes material symmetry is
as nothing when compared with the spiritual well - being of His moral creatures .
... fancied barrier of inexorable law ; and , as the mist clears off , beyond there is
the throne of the Moral King of the universe , in whose eyes material symmetry is
as nothing when compared with the spiritual well - being of His moral creatures .
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Page 414 - God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 506 - And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
Page 231 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around: The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the arme'd throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by 51 TT 52 BOOK SECOND.
Page 300 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 396 - And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins ; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind,; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 108 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 332 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand And there confess my sin.
Page 157 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 190 - Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Page 483 - Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.