A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with the Modern Astronomy. By Thomas Chalmers ..Kirk & Mercein [J. & J. Harper, printers], 1817 - 218 sidor |
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... scene of magnificence has been called into being merely for the amusement of a few astronomers ? Shall we measure the counsels of heaven by the narrow impotence of the human faculties ? or conceive , that silence and solitude reign ...
... scene of magnificence has been called into being merely for the amusement of a few astronomers ? Shall we measure the counsels of heaven by the narrow impotence of the human faculties ? or conceive , that silence and solitude reign ...
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... scene of grandeur and as- tonishment , has there planted the worship- pers of his glory . Did the discoveries of science stop here , we have enough to justify the exclamation of the Psalmist , " What is man that thou art mindful of him ...
... scene of grandeur and as- tonishment , has there planted the worship- pers of his glory . Did the discoveries of science stop here , we have enough to justify the exclamation of the Psalmist , " What is man that thou art mindful of him ...
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... scenes of life and of population would rush into for- getfulness - what is it in the high scale of the Almighty's workmanship ? a mere shred , which , though scattered into nothing , would leave the universe of God one entire scene of ...
... scenes of life and of population would rush into for- getfulness - what is it in the high scale of the Almighty's workmanship ? a mere shred , which , though scattered into nothing , would leave the universe of God one entire scene of ...
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... scene of his 2 pa- tient and profound exercises - nor have they gone along with him , as he gave his silent hours to the labours of the midnight oil , and plied that unwearied task , to which the 1 charm of lofty contemplation had ...
... scene of his 2 pa- tient and profound exercises - nor have they gone along with him , as he gave his silent hours to the labours of the midnight oil , and plied that unwearied task , to which the 1 charm of lofty contemplation had ...
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... scene , for the purpose imputed to him in the New Tes- tament . Impossible , that the concerns of this puny ball , which floats its little round among an infinity of larger worlds , should be of such mighty account in the plans of the ...
... scene , for the purpose imputed to him in the New Tes- tament . Impossible , that the concerns of this puny ball , which floats its little round among an infinity of larger worlds , should be of such mighty account in the plans of the ...
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Sida 273 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon...
Sida 270 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Sida 275 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Sida 270 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Sida 150 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Sida 14 - I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
Sida 275 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Sida 21 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Sida 112 - The other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Sida 29 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.