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... possessed by the intuitions of a higher mind . To take some- thing on trust , to feel its self - evidence , to bend before its revealer as above ourselves - human indeed as he speaks to our consciousness , divine as he transcends our ...
... possessed by the intuitions of a higher mind . To take some- thing on trust , to feel its self - evidence , to bend before its revealer as above ourselves - human indeed as he speaks to our consciousness , divine as he transcends our ...
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... possessed by it may be as truly Christian as the stoutest believer in the plagues of Egypt and the demons in the swine . There is a broad distinction to be drawn between philoso- phical anti - supernaturalism , which regards a miracle ...
... possessed by it may be as truly Christian as the stoutest believer in the plagues of Egypt and the demons in the swine . There is a broad distinction to be drawn between philoso- phical anti - supernaturalism , which regards a miracle ...
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... possessing no common end , proceeding from men who had no knowledge of each other's labours , still less any idea that the results of these labours would ever be congregated into one work . Thou- sands of Christians there must have been ...
... possessing no common end , proceeding from men who had no knowledge of each other's labours , still less any idea that the results of these labours would ever be congregated into one work . Thou- sands of Christians there must have been ...
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... possess is clearly not systematic and theoretical , but incidental and practical ; theirs not by acquisition , but by right of birth . It is the kind of knowledge of human opinions and feelings , which is gained by men of traffic in the ...
... possess is clearly not systematic and theoretical , but incidental and practical ; theirs not by acquisition , but by right of birth . It is the kind of knowledge of human opinions and feelings , which is gained by men of traffic in the ...
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... possesses sufficient grounds for this belief , it is impossible . for me to feel , unless he has submitted them to my judgment , and rendered their adequacy clear . Indeed his assertion is in reality composed of two parts - a statement ...
... possesses sufficient grounds for this belief , it is impossible . for me to feel , unless he has submitted them to my judgment , and rendered their adequacy clear . Indeed his assertion is in reality composed of two parts - a statement ...
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Page 124 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 128 - And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 31 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 152 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 160 - This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God...
Page 28 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven...