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... Origin of the idea of a God ... Impressions from the works of Creation The lonely Forest - the mighty Ocean Presence of Deity felt ... Proofs of the Existence of a God Every Effect must have a Cause Origin of the World Evidence of ...
... Origin of the idea of a God ... Impressions from the works of Creation The lonely Forest - the mighty Ocean Presence of Deity felt ... Proofs of the Existence of a God Every Effect must have a Cause Origin of the World Evidence of ...
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... origin of our idea of a God to our feeling of dependence ; which feeling , as they suppose , has stimulated the mind to create for itself , in the notion of Deity , an object on which it may repose its own weakness with trustful ...
... origin of our idea of a God to our feeling of dependence ; which feeling , as they suppose , has stimulated the mind to create for itself , in the notion of Deity , an object on which it may repose its own weakness with trustful ...
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... origin . What other origin can it have , than the spon- taneous , or intuitive recognition of Deity through nature ? This we believe to be the origin of the idea of God . The mind is not obliged to go through the argument from effect to ...
... origin . What other origin can it have , than the spon- taneous , or intuitive recognition of Deity through nature ? This we believe to be the origin of the idea of God . The mind is not obliged to go through the argument from effect to ...
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... origin of things , When all creation started into birth , The infant elements received a law From which they swerve not since ; that under force Of that controlling ordinance they move , And need not His immediate hand , who first ...
... origin of things , When all creation started into birth , The infant elements received a law From which they swerve not since ; that under force Of that controlling ordinance they move , And need not His immediate hand , who first ...
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... origin to indolence , imprudence , intemperance , passion , and other causes merely human . The same observations are applicable to many other things of the same general na- ture . In truth , men in almost all cases either originate ...
... origin to indolence , imprudence , intemperance , passion , and other causes merely human . The same observations are applicable to many other things of the same general na- ture . In truth , men in almost all cases either originate ...
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Page 98 - Let no man say when he is tempted ; I am tempted of God ; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed : then, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin ; and sin, .when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Page 26 - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, To set them among princes, And to make them inherit the throne of glory : For the pillars of the earth are the LORD s, And he hath set the world upon them.
Page 177 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 45 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 153 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years...
Page 230 - When all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 80 - Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, Even the Most High, thy habitation ; There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Page 214 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 206 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 45 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.