Agnosticism Versus DogmatismB.Johnson and Company, 1884 - 95 pages |
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Page 44 - The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that 'this is I:' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and 'me,' And finds 'I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Page 72 - CREEP into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said ! Vain thy onset ! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contention cease ! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will ! Thou art tired ; best be still.
Page 19 - THE Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith : and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another.
Page 83 - ONE lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, One lesson which in every wind is blown, One lesson of two duties kept at one Though the loud world proclaim their enmity — Of toil unsevered from tranquillity; Of labor, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplished in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry.
Page 14 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 17 - Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism ; from hardness of heart, and contempt of Thy Word and Commandment. Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 23 - Book, the penalty for the third offence being imprisonment for life ; while another law imposed a fine on any one who abstained from the Anglican service. The Presbyterians through a long succession of reigns were imprisoned, branded, mutilated, scourged, and exposed in the pillory. Many Catholics under false pretences were tortured and hung.
Page 83 - Yes, while on earth a thousand discords ring, Man's senseless uproar mingling with his toil, Still do thy quiet ministers move on, Their glorious tasks in silence perfecting; Still working, blaming still our vain turmoil, Labourers that shall not fail, when man is gone B To a Friend.
Page 69 - O ALMIGHTY Lord God, who for the sin of man didst once drown all the world, except eight persons, and afterward of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again ; We humbly beseech thee, that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain and waters...
Page 47 - ' The waters are never weary : they know no other law than to flow, without ceasing, from morning till night, and from night till morning ; but where do they stop ? and who makes them flow thus ? " The clouds also come and go, and burst in water over the earth.