 | Thomas Paine - 1896 - 560 páginas
...withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is ? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the scripture called the Creation. CHAPTER X. CONCERNING GOD, AND THE LIGHTS CAST ON HIS EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES BY THE BIBLE. THE only... | |
 | James A. Randall - 1909 - 52 páginas
...withholding that abundance, even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not a book called the Scripture, which any human hand might make, but the scripture called 'The Creation !' " Where can greater and more sublime faith be found than in the following, which I take from the... | |
 | John Eleazer Remsburg - 1917 - 250 páginas
...withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the scripture called the Creation."— Ibid. "The moral duty of man consists in imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God manifested... | |
 | 1923 - 362 páginas
...withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the scripture called the creation." " When we contemplate the immensity of that Being who directs and governs the incomprehensible WHOLE... | |
 | 1874 - 618 páginas
...withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is ? Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the Scripture called the Creation. — Age of Reason, 1794. OR, "ANONYMA;" COMMON SENSE'S "DEAD MATTEE." Drowned I drowned 1"— Hamlet.... | |
 | Paul King Jewett, Marguerite Shuster - 1991 - 562 páginas
...word . . . that God speaketh universally to man In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the scripture called the Creation." Tom Paine, The Age of Reason; italics his, as cited in Clyde L. Manschreck, A History of Christianity... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 páginas
...withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the scripture called the Creation. The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is, that of a first cause, the cause of all things.... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad - 1996 - 268 páginas
...know who or what God was, one used his Reason, yes; but Reason tells us to turn to Nature. "Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand...might make, but the scripture called the Creation." When Nature spoke, one heard the very voice of God. When Reason guided, one moved as God directed.... | |
 | James M. Byrne - 1997 - 272 páginas
...wisdom? If so, all you need do is look around you; if you want to read the word of God 'Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand might make, but the Scripture called the creation."5 To know God through reason focussed on nature was, for Paine, true religion. Indeed, in... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 páginas
...exist in any written or human language," Paine recommends that we no longer search for revelation in "the book called the Scripture, which any human hand might make," but rather in "the Scripture called the creation" (AR, 63 and 70). Here he follows the deist replacement... | |
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Do we want to contemplate his munificence ? We see it in the abundance with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy? We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is... 
