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... nature and of providence , we can lay no limit on the condescension of God , or on the multiplicity of his regards even to the very humblest departments of creation ; and that it is not for us , who see the evidences of divine wisdom ...
... nature and of providence , we can lay no limit on the condescension of God , or on the multiplicity of his regards even to the very humblest departments of creation ; and that it is not for us , who see the evidences of divine wisdom ...
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... natural science ; if possible to bring over to the humility of the Gospel , those who expa- tiate with delight on ... nature , It has the authority of the Sacred Writers upon its side , and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight ...
... natural science ; if possible to bring over to the humility of the Gospel , those who expa- tiate with delight on ... nature , It has the authority of the Sacred Writers upon its side , and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight ...
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... nature . The Psalmist takes a still loftier flight . He leaves the world , and lifts his imagination to that mighty ... nature to the majesty of nature's Architect , he exclaims , " What is man that thou art mindful of him , or the son ...
... nature . The Psalmist takes a still loftier flight . He leaves the world , and lifts his imagination to that mighty ... nature to the majesty of nature's Architect , he exclaims , " What is man that thou art mindful of him , or the son ...
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... little theatre of human passions and human anxieties . The mind abandons itself to reverie , and is transfer- red in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in the sim- plicity B 4 23.
... little theatre of human passions and human anxieties . The mind abandons itself to reverie , and is transfer- red in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in the sim- plicity B 4 23.
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Thomas Chalmers. unexplored regions . It sees nature in the sim- plicity of her great elements , and it sees the God of nature invested with the high attributes of wisdom and majesty . But what can these lights be ? The curiosity of the ...
Thomas Chalmers. unexplored regions . It sees nature in the sim- plicity of her great elements , and it sees the God of nature invested with the high attributes of wisdom and majesty . But what can these lights be ? The curiosity of the ...
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Page 270 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 265 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 264 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 271 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Page 274 - Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 256 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 270 - I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Page 266 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness : but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night...
Page 258 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Page 150 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.