Aids to Reflection: And The Confessions of an Inquiring SpiritG. Bell & sons, 1913 - 381 pages |
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according answer APHORISM Apostle Arminian asserted attri authority Baptism believe Bible called Calvinistic cause character Christ Christian Church Coleridge's common conscience consequence contradiction conviction Deist distinction divine doctrine effect essential evil existence express fact faculty faith feelings former Gospel grace ground hath heart Holy Holy Spirit human idea Infant Baptism instance Instinct interpretation Irenæus Jeremy Taylor knowledge language latter least LEIGHTON AND COLERIDGE less light likewise means metaphorical metaphysics mind moral mystery nature necessity notion objects opinions origin Original Sin outward peculiar perfect law philosophy present principle proof Prothesis prudence purpose question rational reader reason received Redemption reference reflection religious rence SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE scheme Scriptures seek sense soul speak speculative reason Spirit Spiritual Religion supposed term thee theological things thou thought tion true truth understanding views whole words writer
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Page 348 - In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.
Page 88 - 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?
Page 12 - 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...
Page 213 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 145 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Page 355 - Curate shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and steadfastly believe that JESUS CHRIST hath suffered death upon the Cross for him, and shed His blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering the benefits he hath thereby, and giving. Him hearty thanks therefore, he doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our SAVIOUR CHRIST profitably to his soul's health, although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth.
Page xix - Whithersoever the Spirit was to go, the wheels went, and thither was their spirit to go: — for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels also...
Page 67 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 334 - And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Page lxi - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing but in degree, of kind the same.