Aids to ReflectionC. Goodrich, 1840 - 357 páginas |
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answer APHORISM Apostle Arminian assertion authority Baptism believe called Calvinistic cause character Christ Christian Church common comprehend conscience consciousness consequences contradiction contrary conviction Deist distinction divine doctrine effect essential evil existence express fact faculty faith fear feelings Gospel grace ground hath heart holy human idea Infant Baptism instance Irenæus Jeremy Taylor knowledge language latter least LEIGHTON AND COLERIDGE less light mankind means metaphorical metaphysics mind moral moral responsibility mystery natural theology nature necessity notion objects opinions original original sin outward peculiar perfect law persons philosophy Plato present principle proof proper Prothesis prudence purpose question rational reader reason received redemption reflection religious scheme Scrip Scripture seek sense sophisms soul speak speculative reason spirit spiritual religion suppose tence theological things thou thought tion Transubstantiation true truth understanding views virtue words writings
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Página 105 - He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Página 76 - LORD, with what care hast Thou begirt us round, Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without, our shame ; within, our consciences ; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and...
Página 316 - Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the Word. Make a man feel the want of it ; rouse him, if you can, to the self-knowledge of his need of it; and you may safely trust it to its own Evidence...
Página 71 - An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over a single passion or ' subtle bosom sin,' will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the habit, of reflection, than a year's study in the Schools without them.
Página 128 - It is not impossible that there may be in some an affected pride in the meanness of apparel, and in others, under either neat or rich attire, a very humble unaffected mind: using it upon some of the afore-mentioned engagements, or such like, and yet the heart not at all upon it. Magnus...
Página 320 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.
Página 128 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? and if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Página 71 - like ours, where so many words are derived from other languages, there are few modes of instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign.
Página 67 - Truths of all others the most awful and mysterious, yet being at the same time of universal interest, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the life and efficiency of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Página 128 - I say, doth the muscular life in the insect, and the musculo-arterial in the bird, imitate and typically rehearse the adaptive understanding, yea, and the moral affections and charities, of man. Let us carry ourselves back, in spirit, to the mysterious week, the teeming work-days of the creator: as they rose in vision before the eye of the inspired historian of the generations of the heaven and the earth, in the days that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.