The Christian Disciple and Theological Review, Volume 4Noah Worcester, Henry Ware Wells and Lilly, 1822 |
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... duties of life , religion is no longer necessary to them , however suitable it may be to keep up in others a sense of duty . They are convinced that the whole course of life com- manded by the Christian faith is rational and suited to ...
... duties of life , religion is no longer necessary to them , however suitable it may be to keep up in others a sense of duty . They are convinced that the whole course of life com- manded by the Christian faith is rational and suited to ...
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... the motive is placed as much above all earthly things as a Christian's hope , what can be a sufficient temptation to lead one from duty ? It is almost impossible to suppose a case when a Christian , if he had time to reflect , 6 On Piety .
... the motive is placed as much above all earthly things as a Christian's hope , what can be a sufficient temptation to lead one from duty ? It is almost impossible to suppose a case when a Christian , if he had time to reflect , 6 On Piety .
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... duties and pleasures , is so far below what we at times feel we were made for ; so much beneath what we hope is our destiny ; our conceptions of what might be , so far outrun any thing it is given us here to see or feel ; that it is ...
... duties and pleasures , is so far below what we at times feel we were made for ; so much beneath what we hope is our destiny ; our conceptions of what might be , so far outrun any thing it is given us here to see or feel ; that it is ...
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... duties , which will prepare us for better things . When this hope is once firmly established , how cheerily will man go ... duty ; a good temper and a blameless and beneficent deportment are thought to be all that is required . It is ...
... duties , which will prepare us for better things . When this hope is once firmly established , how cheerily will man go ... duty ; a good temper and a blameless and beneficent deportment are thought to be all that is required . It is ...
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... duties are re- gulated and our rights ascertained . Is it not true , if we appeal to experience , that in proportion ... duty and virtue is set up as the rule of life . We do not say , that the actual attainments of men in goodness are ...
... duties are re- gulated and our rights ascertained . Is it not true , if we appeal to experience , that in proportion ... duty and virtue is set up as the rule of life . We do not say , that the actual attainments of men in goodness are ...
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Page 317 - Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Page 318 - Him openly ; not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with Him after He rose from the dead.
Page 98 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 269 - God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good or evil.
Page 23 - W'ho, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Page 97 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity!
Page 317 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul, neither said any of them, that aught of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus; and great grace was upon them all.
Page 25 - Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray ; Who, not content that former worth stand fast, Looks forward, persevering to the last, From well to better, daily self-surpast...
Page 98 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Page 339 - Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.