A Critical History of Free Thought in Reference to the Christian Religion: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford, in the Year 1862, on the Foundation of John Bampton

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D. Appleton, 1863 - 487 pages
 

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Page 116 - When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page iii - Lands and Estates to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford for ever, to have and to hold all and singular the said Lands or Estates upon trust, and to the intents and purposes herein-after mentioned ; that is to say, I will and appoint that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford for the time being shall take and...
Page 260 - Who touch'da jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and...
Page iii - Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the Printing-House, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in Lent Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term.
Page 317 - Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Page iii - I give and bequeath my Lands and Estates to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford for ever, to have and to hold all and...
Page iv - Nicene Creeds. "Also I direct, that thirty copies of the eight Divinity Lecture " Sermons shall be always printed, within two months after they " are preached ; and one copy shall be given to the Chancellor of " the University, and one copy to the Head of every College, and " one copy to the Mayor of the city of Oxford, and one copy to " be put into the Bodleian Library ; and the...
Page xix - A Large Collection of Ancient Jewish and Heathen Testimonies to the Truth of the Christian Religion...
Page 209 - My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest ? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest. He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal ; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 433 - God become man, the infinite manifesting itself in the finite, and the finite spirit remembering its infinitude; it is the child of the visible Mother, and the invisible Father, Nature and Spirit; it is the worker of miracles, in so far as in the course of human history the Spirit more and more completely subjugates Nature both within and around man until it lies before him as...

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