RegenerationCrosby, Nichols, 1853 - 248 pages |
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... never pressed more urgently upon the common mind than now . The old theologies do not satisfy . They do not answer these questions . They do not so much give light , as hang in the way of it . And yet , because they are gradually ...
... never pressed more urgently upon the common mind than now . The old theologies do not satisfy . They do not answer these questions . They do not so much give light , as hang in the way of it . And yet , because they are gradually ...
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... never break up the type . The origin of races is a question from which we retire . It is all the same , as regards this argument , whether the streams , of mi- gration first radiated from one or from many centres . We simply point to ...
... never break up the type . The origin of races is a question from which we retire . It is all the same , as regards this argument , whether the streams , of mi- gration first radiated from one or from many centres . We simply point to ...
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... dispositions of a people to be discerned . Language is never an as- semblage of arbitrary signs among the people with whom it is native and living . It is the crystalliza- tion of their most interior mind , and it shows 26 THE NATURAL MAN .
... dispositions of a people to be discerned . Language is never an as- semblage of arbitrary signs among the people with whom it is native and living . It is the crystalliza- tion of their most interior mind , and it shows 26 THE NATURAL MAN .
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... never indulged , followed him and tormented him . as if the word " rum " was rung by some demon into his ears . Resistance at last silenced the demon and drove him out . Such force is there in a human will when fortified by the spirit ...
... never indulged , followed him and tormented him . as if the word " rum " was rung by some demon into his ears . Resistance at last silenced the demon and drove him out . Such force is there in a human will when fortified by the spirit ...
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... never brought the most interior life under the judgments of the eternal law , have no such experience as we here describe . But it is conspicuously displayed in the lives of such men as Luther , Fénelon , Taylor , Bun- yan , Fox ...
... never brought the most interior life under the judgments of the eternal law , have no such experience as we here describe . But it is conspicuously displayed in the lives of such men as Luther , Fénelon , Taylor , Bun- yan , Fox ...
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Page 88 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came ; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 52 - Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Page 70 - There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdst But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.
Page 46 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 131 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind.
Page 194 - Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
Page 14 - The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called Original Sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.
Page 89 - The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with His eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear child ! dear girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year ; And worshipp'st at the temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Page 212 - Buy those things that we have need of against the feast ; or, that he should give something to the poor. He then having received the sop went immediately out : and it was night. Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
Page 14 - They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.