Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews, Volume 2Ivison & Phinney, 1855 - Christianity |
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... ment is not and cannot be preached . It is found in ancient books of divinity , written in a sterner age , and when the principles of interpretation were less understood , and the large and liberal nature of the gospel was less ...
... ment is not and cannot be preached . It is found in ancient books of divinity , written in a sterner age , and when the principles of interpretation were less understood , and the large and liberal nature of the gospel was less ...
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... ment of interpreting the words of David , Isaiah , or John . We have been accustomed to apply an obvious common - sense to ascertain the meaning of a written document ; to suppose that men wrote to make themselves understood ; that the ...
... ment of interpreting the words of David , Isaiah , or John . We have been accustomed to apply an obvious common - sense to ascertain the meaning of a written document ; to suppose that men wrote to make themselves understood ; that the ...
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... ment , and relied on as proofs ? And who in an intelligent assembly would risk his reputation as an expositor by adduc- ing those very texts as proofs of the truth of the doctrine ? - So there is a sort of admiration which a man may ...
... ment , and relied on as proofs ? And who in an intelligent assembly would risk his reputation as an expositor by adduc- ing those very texts as proofs of the truth of the doctrine ? - So there is a sort of admiration which a man may ...
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... ment , and who can see the weakness of a bad one ; and men who can appreciate a good sermon , if there is a good sermon to be appreciated . A preacher may , in many cases , presume safely that he understands more Latin and Greek than ...
... ment , and who can see the weakness of a bad one ; and men who can appreciate a good sermon , if there is a good sermon to be appreciated . A preacher may , in many cases , presume safely that he understands more Latin and Greek than ...
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... ment , they have disciplined the eye , and the brow , and the whole expressive countenance , so that they shall not betray the inward emotions of the soul . Nature , under all the dis- advantages of our profession , is still open to the ...
... ment , they have disciplined the eye , and the brow , and the whole expressive countenance , so that they shall not betray the inward emotions of the soul . Nature , under all the dis- advantages of our profession , is still open to the ...
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Page 172 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 351 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 200 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 195 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 192 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 191 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Page 290 - But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 192 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 46 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Page 169 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.