 | 1856 - 598 pages
...in general terms an over-ruling providence, they habitually ascribea every event to the will of that Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast...minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted... | |
 | Form, S. C. - 1856 - 74 pages
...character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. To know God, to serve and enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence....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 Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...they luibltually inscribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whoM 1 power nothing wa* too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to .' him, to enjoy him, wa» with them the fivnt end of existence. They rejected with contempt the nious... | |
 | Temple Christian Faber - 1857 - 502 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...vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To knov Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. Hence originated their... | |
 | 1857 - 676 pages
...present reality, — an entity that presented as tangible ideas to their minds as London or Leyden. " Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...Being, for whose power ^nothing was too vast, for 250 251 whose inspection nothing was too minute." ' The long contest between the Good and Evil principles,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they hahitually aserihed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose...for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know hiro, to scrva him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...derived a. peculiar character from the dally contemplation of superior beings and eternal interest*. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...ascribed, every event to the will of the Great Being, fur who»c power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing WHS too minute. To know him, to... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 276 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...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 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...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, and for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external interests. Not con'ent nable. " Garent," said Politian, " quas seribunt isti...Nisi liber ille prœsto si', ex quo quid excerpant vas t, for whose inspection nothing was loo minute To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with... | |
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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... 
