Physical Theory of Another LifeD. Appleton, 1836 - 278 sidor |
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Sida 233 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath ; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Sida 233 - Heaven and earth shall pass away : but my word shall not pass away, xxi.
Sida 233 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Sida 233 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Sida 38 - For as in the individual the truth of the apostle's statement is discerned, "that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual...
Sida 273 - Man we believe to be immortal (revelation apart) not because his mind is separable from animal organization ; but because his intellectual and moral constitution is such as to demand a future- development of his nature. Why should that which is immaterial be indestructible? None can tell us ; and on the contrary, we are free to suppose that there may be immaterial orders, enjoying their hour of existence, and then returning to nihility.
Sida 225 - Nor in considering questions of this sort ought we to listen for a moment to those frequent, but impertinent questions, that are brought forward with the view of superseding the inquiry ; — such for example, as these — What good end is answered by the alleged extra natural 20 occurrences ? — or, Is it worthy of the Supreme Wisdom to permit them ? and so forth.
Sida 129 - ... in a new world. Partly on the ground of inferences from general principles, and partly on the strength of particular assertions, we suppose that the fair and faultless paradisaical model of human beauty and majesty, which stood forward as the...
Sida 225 - Hume's oft-repeated sophism, that no testimony can establish an alleged fact which is at variance with common experience ; for it must not be denied that some few instances of the sort alluded to rest upon testimony in itself thoroughly unimpeachable ; nor is the import of the evidence in these cases at all touched by the now wellunderstood doctrine concerning spectral illusions.
Sida 244 - ... alone was freely developed ; if we realized the truth thus expressed by a powerful writer — " within the entire circle of our intellectual constitution, we value nothing but emotion ; it is not the powers, but the fruit of those powers, in so much feeling of a lofty kind as they will yield.