The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 20; Volume 42G. Lane and P.P. Sanford, 1860 |
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... present state ; he needs a future one fully to develop and employ them . It is otherwise with every thing around him . Should a bird , a beast , or a fish live a million years , would it acquire any new powers , or enlarge its capacity ...
... present state ; he needs a future one fully to develop and employ them . It is otherwise with every thing around him . Should a bird , a beast , or a fish live a million years , would it acquire any new powers , or enlarge its capacity ...
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... present life ; in heathendom they have but little education except that of bodily wants . Even in Christendom multitudes rarely lift their thoughts above the mines , the lanes , or the fields in which they spend their lives of ...
... present life ; in heathendom they have but little education except that of bodily wants . Even in Christendom multitudes rarely lift their thoughts above the mines , the lanes , or the fields in which they spend their lives of ...
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... present life ; that without the hopes and fears of a future world man could not exist in a social condition in this , for the overflowings of human depravity would prove too mighty for the dikes of human law . There is ground for this ...
... present life ; that without the hopes and fears of a future world man could not exist in a social condition in this , for the overflowings of human depravity would prove too mighty for the dikes of human law . There is ground for this ...
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... present state would not be a suitable theater for the probation or display of moral character ; if , therefore , it is easy to conceive that it may be such a theater , it is equally easy to suppose that justice may rightfully slumber ...
... present state would not be a suitable theater for the probation or display of moral character ; if , therefore , it is easy to conceive that it may be such a theater , it is equally easy to suppose that justice may rightfully slumber ...
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... present are our only guide in judging of the future . The distribution of happiness and misery in the present life is in great measure promiscuous . Therefore it will be so in the future . To the second premise , in order to make a full ...
... present are our only guide in judging of the future . The distribution of happiness and misery in the present life is in great measure promiscuous . Therefore it will be so in the future . To the second premise , in order to make a full ...
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Page 268 - Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law, ROMANS 4 1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
Page 487 - ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Page 652 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Page 482 - And we own and believe in Jesus Christ, his beloved and only begotten Son, in whom he is well pleased ; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary...
Page 306 - Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.
Page 310 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 429 - Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, 0 ye of little faith?
Page 103 - Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Page 302 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 338 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.