 | John Warner Barber - 1839 - 666 pages
...providence, hry habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Bemg, for whose power 'i I'jiine was too vast, for whose inspection, nothing was too minute. To know him, to «rve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected wub. comempt the ceremonious... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...character from the daily contemplation of superior VOL. xn. NO. 3. 56 beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1840 - 672 pages
...beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling provuleice, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of...They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage v.'hich other sects substituted for the homage of the soul. — On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an over-ruling...him, was with them the great end of existence. They i ejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of... | |
 | 1866 - 580 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 390 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 372 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
 | 1844 - 602 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
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The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling providence, they habitually ascribed every event... 
