The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian RevelationClarendon Press, 1801 - 354 pages |
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Page 96
... imagination fet any bounds to it ? To return therefore to my first thought , I could not but look upon myself with fecret horror , as a being that was not worth the smallest regard of one who had fo great a work under his care and fuper ...
... imagination fet any bounds to it ? To return therefore to my first thought , I could not but look upon myself with fecret horror , as a being that was not worth the smallest regard of one who had fo great a work under his care and fuper ...
Page 105
... imagination to conceive the fearful effects of Omnipo- tence incenfed . But I fhall only confider the wretched- nefs of an intellectual Being , who , in this life , lies under the displeasure of him , that at all times and in all places ...
... imagination to conceive the fearful effects of Omnipo- tence incenfed . But I fhall only confider the wretched- nefs of an intellectual Being , who , in this life , lies under the displeasure of him , that at all times and in all places ...
Page 115
... imaginations ' cannot be raised too high , when we ' think of a place where Omnipotence and Omniscience have fo fignally ex- ' erted themselves , because they are able ' to produce a scene infinitely more great ' and glorious than what ...
... imaginations ' cannot be raised too high , when we ' think of a place where Omnipotence and Omniscience have fo fignally ex- ' erted themselves , because they are able ' to produce a scene infinitely more great ' and glorious than what ...
Page 178
... imagination , and constitution . Devotion , when it does not lie under the check of reafon , is very apt to degene- rate into Enthusiasm . When the mind finds herself very much inflamed with her de- votions , she is too much inclined to ...
... imagination , and constitution . Devotion , when it does not lie under the check of reafon , is very apt to degene- rate into Enthusiasm . When the mind finds herself very much inflamed with her de- votions , she is too much inclined to ...
Page 198
... imagination are of very little weight , when put in the balance with what refines and exalts the rational mind . Longinus excuses Homer very handsomely , when he says the Poet made his Gods like men , that he might make his men appear ...
... imagination are of very little weight , when put in the balance with what refines and exalts the rational mind . Longinus excuses Homer very handsomely , when he says the Poet made his Gods like men , that he might make his men appear ...
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Page 98 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 231 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 96 - We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works...
Page 137 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 93 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Page 294 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope.
Page xvii - ... there were between God and our Saviour, in reference to his kingdom. We know not what need there was to set up a head and a chieftain, in opposition to " the prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air,
Page 252 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Page 115 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 137 - THOSE who were skilful in anatomy, among the ancients, concluded, from the outward and inward make of an human body, that it was the work of a Being transcendently wise and powerful. As the world grew more enlightened in this art, their discoveries gave them fresh opportunities of admiring the conduct of Providence in the formation of a human body.