A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with the Modern AstronomyJ. Smith, 1817 - 276 sidor |
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... thought fit to present them in a separate form . I look for a twofold benefit from this exhibition - first , to those more general readers , who are ignorant of the Scriptures , and of the richness and va- riety which abound in them ...
... thought fit to present them in a separate form . I look for a twofold benefit from this exhibition - first , to those more general readers , who are ignorant of the Scriptures , and of the richness and va- riety which abound in them ...
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... thought over its immeasurable regions . Instead of a dark and unpeopled soli- tude , he sees it crowded with splendour , and filled with the energy of the Divine presence . Creation rises in its immensity before him , and the world ...
... thought over its immeasurable regions . Instead of a dark and unpeopled soli- tude , he sees it crowded with splendour , and filled with the energy of the Divine presence . Creation rises in its immensity before him , and the world ...
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... rise in lofty abstraction above this little theatre of human passions and human anxieties . The mind abandons itself to reverie , and is transferred in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in 23.
... rise in lofty abstraction above this little theatre of human passions and human anxieties . The mind abandons itself to reverie , and is transferred in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in 23.
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... thoughts ; that he gives birth to every feeling and every movement within me ; and that , with an exercise of power which I can neither describe nor comprehend , the same God who sits in the highest heaven , and reigns over the glories ...
... thoughts ; that he gives birth to every feeling and every movement within me ; and that , with an exercise of power which I can neither describe nor comprehend , the same God who sits in the highest heaven , and reigns over the glories ...
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... thought , entered that closet which was the scene of his patient 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 ...
... thought , entered that closet which was the scene of his patient 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 ...
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Sida 267 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
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 264 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Sida 266 - But ye are come unto Mount Zion ; and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem ; and to an innumerable company of angels ; to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven ; and to God, the Judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect...
Sida 267 - And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Sida 262 - Every day will I bless Thee ; And I will praise Thy name for ever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ; And His greatness is unsearchable.
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 273 - And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Sida 258 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Sida 263 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded?