The Genius of Christianity, Or, The Spirit and Beauty of the Christian ReligionJ. Murphy, 1856 - 763 pages |
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Page 49
... considering religion in a merely human point of view ? Why so ? Does our religion shrink from the light ? Surely one great proof of its divine origin is , that it will bear the test of the fullest and severest scrutiny of reason . Would ...
... considering religion in a merely human point of view ? Why so ? Does our religion shrink from the light ? Surely one great proof of its divine origin is , that it will bear the test of the fullest and severest scrutiny of reason . Would ...
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... considering Christianity displays associations of ideas which are but imperfectly known . Sublime in the antiquity of its recollections , which go back to the crea- tion of the world , ineffable in its mysteries , adorable in its ...
... considering Christianity displays associations of ideas which are but imperfectly known . Sublime in the antiquity of its recollections , which go back to the crea- tion of the world , ineffable in its mysteries , adorable in its ...
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... Considering , then , the natural propensity of man to the mys- terious , it cannot appear surprising that the religions of all na- tions should have had their impenetrable secrets . The Selli 52 GENIUS OF CHRISTIANITY .
... Considering , then , the natural propensity of man to the mys- terious , it cannot appear surprising that the religions of all na- tions should have had their impenetrable secrets . The Selli 52 GENIUS OF CHRISTIANITY .
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... consider it in the attributes of God , or examine the vestiges of this dogma , which was formerly diffused throughout the East . It is a pitiful mode of reasoning to reject whatever we cannot comprehend . It would be easy to prove ...
... consider it in the attributes of God , or examine the vestiges of this dogma , which was formerly diffused throughout the East . It is a pitiful mode of reasoning to reject whatever we cannot comprehend . It would be easy to prove ...
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... consider it . A universal tradition teaches us that man was created in a more perfect state than that in which he at present exists , and that there has been a fall . This tradition is confirmed by the opinion of philosophers in every ...
... consider it . A universal tradition teaches us that man was created in a more perfect state than that in which he at present exists , and that there has been a fall . This tradition is confirmed by the opinion of philosophers in every ...
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Page 331 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 321 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 238 - Return, fair Eve ; Whom fly'st thou ? whom thou fly'st, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone ; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial life, to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear ; Part of my soul, I seek thee, and thee claim, My other half...
Page 395 - But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness...
Page 217 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 350 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 239 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Page 321 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor— one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 350 - There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
Page 282 - Ev'n here, where frozen chastity retires, Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. I ought to grieve, but cannot what I ought ; I mourn the lover, not lament the fault ; I view my crime, but kindle at the view...