Discourses on the Christian Revelation Viewed in Connexion with the Modern Astronomy: Together with Six Sermons Embracing the Last Occasioned by the Death of the Princess Charlotte of WalesMark Newman. Flagg & Gould, printers, 1818 - 344 pages |
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... strength of other evidences , to be guided by its informa- tion . We shall thus learn , that Christianity has a far more ex- tensive bearing on the other orders of creation than the Infidel is disposed to allow ; and whether he will own ...
... strength of other evidences , to be guided by its informa- tion . We shall thus learn , that Christianity has a far more ex- tensive bearing on the other orders of creation than the Infidel is disposed to allow ; and whether he will own ...
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... , and not when the sun had risen in his strength , and thrown a splendour around him , which bore down and eclipsed all the lesser glories of the firmament . And there is much in the scenery of a nocturnal 12 A SKETCH OF THE.
... , and not when the sun had risen in his strength , and thrown a splendour around him , which bore down and eclipsed all the lesser glories of the firmament . And there is much in the scenery of a nocturnal 12 A SKETCH OF THE.
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... strength through the dominions of one vast and unlimited monarchy . The contemplation has no limits . If we ask the num- ber of suns and of systems , the unassisted eye of man can take in a thousand , and the best telescope which the ...
... strength through the dominions of one vast and unlimited monarchy . The contemplation has no limits . If we ask the num- ber of suns and of systems , the unassisted eye of man can take in a thousand , and the best telescope which the ...
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... strength and the sound- ness of his philosophy , as much by his decisions upon those doctrines of science which he rejected , as by his demonstration of those doctrines of science which he was the first to propose , and which now stand ...
... strength and the sound- ness of his philosophy , as much by his decisions upon those doctrines of science which he rejected , as by his demonstration of those doctrines of science which he was the first to propose , and which now stand ...
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... strength and of its modesty . On the one hand , what greater evidence of strength than the fulfilment of that mighty enterprise , by which the heavens have been made its own , and the mechanism of unnumbered worlds has been brought ...
... strength and of its modesty . On the one hand , what greater evidence of strength than the fulfilment of that mighty enterprise , by which the heavens have been made its own , and the mechanism of unnumbered worlds has been brought ...
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Page 155 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness : but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Page 154 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 154 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 152 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 157 - But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Page 154 - Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: but he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
Page 206 - And many people shall go and say, 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:' for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Page 150 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 155 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 155 - But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.