Footprints Heavenward: Or, Universalism the More Excellent WayJ.M. Usher, 1861 - 404 pages |
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... fear I am detaining you too long upon the threshold . Let us go inside ; nor fear to lift curtains , open doors , and pull drawers . We are not heathen , treading the enchanted grounds of mythology , that we should fear a Pandora's Box ...
... fear I am detaining you too long upon the threshold . Let us go inside ; nor fear to lift curtains , open doors , and pull drawers . We are not heathen , treading the enchanted grounds of mythology , that we should fear a Pandora's Box ...
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... fear that truth and reli- gion can suffer under the agitation of free enquiry . Let us leave that fear to the Romanist . For truth always feels humiliated , when its holders are afraid to have it freely grapple with error . It dreads ...
... fear that truth and reli- gion can suffer under the agitation of free enquiry . Let us leave that fear to the Romanist . For truth always feels humiliated , when its holders are afraid to have it freely grapple with error . It dreads ...
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... Fear to examine - Are you afraid ? Self - conviction . DEAR BROTHER , — In my last letter , I incidentally spoke of the bond- age of creeds . Against creeds , however , we have nothing to say , provided the church will shed them as fast ...
... Fear to examine - Are you afraid ? Self - conviction . DEAR BROTHER , — In my last letter , I incidentally spoke of the bond- age of creeds . Against creeds , however , we have nothing to say , provided the church will shed them as fast ...
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... examina- tion . To be sure , there are honorable exceptions . But are they not exceptions merely ? Look and see ! Now a faith , thus received without a reason , and holden from fashion , fear or habit , can have ABUSE OF CREEDS . 35.
... examina- tion . To be sure , there are honorable exceptions . But are they not exceptions merely ? Look and see ! Now a faith , thus received without a reason , and holden from fashion , fear or habit , can have ABUSE OF CREEDS . 35.
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... fear or habit , can have nothing radical in it ; though hugged ever so tenaciously , it is no part of a person's self , but a purely accident- al property , originated and controlled by circum- as the ancient theology of the Roman ...
... fear or habit , can have nothing radical in it ; though hugged ever so tenaciously , it is no part of a person's self , but a purely accident- al property , originated and controlled by circum- as the ancient theology of the Roman ...
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Page 308 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people : and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time : and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Page 181 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 318 - But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away ; how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious 1 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
Page 182 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 371 - I show you a mystery : we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed...
Page 369 - concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. ^O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! ** For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Page 338 - And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Page 68 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Page 302 - Lord, how long ? " And he answered, " Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
Page 101 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.