Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3; Volume 21O. Everett, 1837 |
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... spirit of freedom which ran through those institutions , that recommended them to the strong hearts of our fathers . They saw , what many others who read the Bible never saw , that it was the constitution of a free people . A government ...
... spirit of freedom which ran through those institutions , that recommended them to the strong hearts of our fathers . They saw , what many others who read the Bible never saw , that it was the constitution of a free people . A government ...
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... spirit of the law should be sound and just . We remember to have been informed by a clergyman , that he was dismissed from his charge for refusing to marry a man to the sister of his deceased wife . On our asking why he refused , he ...
... spirit of the law should be sound and just . We remember to have been informed by a clergyman , that he was dismissed from his charge for refusing to marry a man to the sister of his deceased wife . On our asking why he refused , he ...
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... spirit - broken by their bondage ; he was to brace them up to bold and decisive action , to force their way through the des- ert and seize the land of promise , and , what was still more , to subdue their ungovernable spirits to the ...
... spirit - broken by their bondage ; he was to brace them up to bold and decisive action , to force their way through the des- ert and seize the land of promise , and , what was still more , to subdue their ungovernable spirits to the ...
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... spirit of the nation had sunk so low during their long period of bondage , that they dared not enter the land ; and , had they entered it , would not have had vigor and virtue enough to be free . He was compelled to withdraw them in ...
... spirit of the nation had sunk so low during their long period of bondage , that they dared not enter the land ; and , had they entered it , would not have had vigor and virtue enough to be free . He was compelled to withdraw them in ...
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... spirit of his law was wholly against it ; all who afterwards maintained the spirit of his law , were equal- ly strong against it . This was the case with Samuel , that perfect example of a popular magistrate , who remonstrated solemnly ...
... spirit of his law was wholly against it ; all who afterwards maintained the spirit of his law , were equal- ly strong against it . This was the case with Samuel , that perfect example of a popular magistrate , who remonstrated solemnly ...
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Page 99 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, "Peace, be still." And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, " Why are ye so fearful ? how is it that ye have no faith?" And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, " What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
Page 144 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews : to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law...
Page 376 - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself it is a good life ; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well ; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well ; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
Page 138 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 83 - Heaven, It is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him ; but are, in very deed, Ghosts ! These Limbs, whence had we them ; this stormy Force ; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our ME ; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.
Page 374 - Material objects," said a French philosopher, "are necessarily kinds of scorice of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin; in other words, visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side." This doctrine is abstruse, and though the images of "garment...
Page 81 - Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, — is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye.
Page 206 - Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
Page 89 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 193 - All mankind by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.