 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection...sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection...sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 pages
...terms, an over-ruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection...sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of...sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 136 pages
...minute. To know 1 him, to serve 1 him, to enjoy 1 him, was with them the great end of existence. 2. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage...sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection...sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...whose power nothing was too vast. Tor whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to M-rve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of...sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. If they wei* onacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read In the oracles... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. 2. They rejected wi& contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the*Deity through an obscuring vail, they aspired to gaze... | |
 | Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 pages
...tenns, an overruling providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection...sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Newell - 1865 - 80 pages
...terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection...homage which other sects substituted for the pure homage of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity,through an obscuring veil,... | |
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The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling providence, they habitually ascribed every event... 
