The Free Churchman and Christian Spectator, Volume 1Elliot Stock, 1868 |
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... true . Is it , we prefer to ask , in any sense true ? If we examine the gospels , where alone we can hope to find the meaning of the expression , we do not discover any trace of these ideas except in the remarks occasionally made by the ...
... true . Is it , we prefer to ask , in any sense true ? If we examine the gospels , where alone we can hope to find the meaning of the expression , we do not discover any trace of these ideas except in the remarks occasionally made by the ...
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... true of the Church , in relation to morals , to phi- losophy , and science . It has been influenced much more than it has influenced others . What it now desires to prove that it possesses , and boasts of as its chief inheritance from ...
... true of the Church , in relation to morals , to phi- losophy , and science . It has been influenced much more than it has influenced others . What it now desires to prove that it possesses , and boasts of as its chief inheritance from ...
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... true that our own courts of law are gradually undermin- ing the Act of Uniformity ; and it is equally true that they are approximating the practice of the nineteenth century to the original design of Elizabeth and Cecil in establishing ...
... true that our own courts of law are gradually undermin- ing the Act of Uniformity ; and it is equally true that they are approximating the practice of the nineteenth century to the original design of Elizabeth and Cecil in establishing ...
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... true . It is true in a sense which he not only does not mean , but would earnestly disclaim . Silence often carries off the rewards which are due to brave , wise , honest speech . Pom- pous , decorous dullness not unfrequently gains an ...
... true . It is true in a sense which he not only does not mean , but would earnestly disclaim . Silence often carries off the rewards which are due to brave , wise , honest speech . Pom- pous , decorous dullness not unfrequently gains an ...
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... true ; but the knowledge thus gained is of the outward and impersonal sort . It is learning , rather than wisdom , which is acquired by methods such as these . " But wisdom is a pearl , with most success Sought in still waters and ...
... true ; but the knowledge thus gained is of the outward and impersonal sort . It is learning , rather than wisdom , which is acquired by methods such as these . " But wisdom is a pearl , with most success Sought in still waters and ...
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Popular passages
Page 562 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 513 - And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things ? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Page 315 - By thine Agony and Bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the Coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 437 - God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 407 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 986 - Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 5 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 600 - ... for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Page 997 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here!
Page 362 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.