The Statesman's Manual: Or, The Bible the Best Guide to Political Skill and Foresight: a Lay Sermon, Addressed to the Higher Classes of Society, with an Appendix, Containing Comments and Essays Connected with Study of the Inspired Writings |
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... likewise announced it in the title - page , as exclusively ad clerum ; i . e . ( in the old and wide sense of the word ) to men of clerkly acquirements , of whatever profession . I would that the greater part of our publications could ...
... likewise announced it in the title - page , as exclusively ad clerum ; i . e . ( in the old and wide sense of the word ) to men of clerkly acquirements , of whatever profession . I would that the greater part of our publications could ...
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... Likewise , I would point out to the Reader's attention the marvellous predominance at present of the words , Idea and De- monstration . Every talker now a days has an Idea ; aye , and he will demonstrate it too ! A few days ago , I ...
... Likewise , I would point out to the Reader's attention the marvellous predominance at present of the words , Idea and De- monstration . Every talker now a days has an Idea ; aye , and he will demonstrate it too ! A few days ago , I ...
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... likewise brake in pieces the BRAZEN SERPENT that Moses had made : for the children of Israel did burn incense to it . 6 To preclude an error so pernicious , I request that to the wilful neglect of those outward ministrations of the word ...
... likewise brake in pieces the BRAZEN SERPENT that Moses had made : for the children of Israel did burn incense to it . 6 To preclude an error so pernicious , I request that to the wilful neglect of those outward ministrations of the word ...
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... likewise a revelation of God - the great book of his servant Nature . That in its obvious sense and literal interpretation it declares the being and attributes , of the Almighty Father , none but the fool in heart has ever dared gainsay ...
... likewise a revelation of God - the great book of his servant Nature . That in its obvious sense and literal interpretation it declares the being and attributes , of the Almighty Father , none but the fool in heart has ever dared gainsay ...
Page xxi
... likewise , nothing to be urged for its reality ; and that the facts may be rationally explained without it . : It has been asked why knowing myself to be the object of personal slander , ( slander as unprovoked as it is groundless ...
... likewise , nothing to be urged for its reality ; and that the facts may be rationally explained without it . : It has been asked why knowing myself to be the object of personal slander , ( slander as unprovoked as it is groundless ...
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Page 3 - For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments...
Page 79 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 31 - Truths of all others the most awful and mysterious, yet being at the same time of universal interest, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the life and efficiency of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Page 67 - But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Page 37 - On the other hand a symbol ... is characterized by a translucence of the special in the individual, or of the general in the special, or of the universal in the general; above all by the translucence of the eternal through and in the temporal.
Page 43 - But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, The loss of children, and widowhood: They shall come upon thee in their perfection For the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Page 13 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly ; so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page xii - ... the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence from the glory of the Almighty ; which remaining in itself regenerateth all other powers, and in all ages entering into holy souls maketh them friends of God and prophets; (Wisdom of Solomon, c.
Page 55 - And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence (first place).
Page 31 - ... the mind that feels the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel it. To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood...