Lectures on the Atheistic Controversy: Delivered in the Months of February and March, 1834, at Sion Chapel, Bradford, Yorkshire. Forming the First Part of a Course of Lectures on InfidelityHilliard, Gray, 1835 - 350 pages |
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... hand , and of prejudice , bigotry , and su- perstition , on the other ; -as you have described such as enemies to human happiness , and fit only to be hunted from society , common justice requires , that while you thus endeavor to ...
... hand , and of prejudice , bigotry , and su- perstition , on the other ; -as you have described such as enemies to human happiness , and fit only to be hunted from society , common justice requires , that while you thus endeavor to ...
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... hands , published a few years since , by a highly respectable and talented minister of the Methodist New Connection , on the same subjcet ; * but , as the au- thor found on inspection , that this gentleman referred principally to the ...
... hands , published a few years since , by a highly respectable and talented minister of the Methodist New Connection , on the same subjcet ; * but , as the au- thor found on inspection , that this gentleman referred principally to the ...
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... " " Know ye that the Lord he is God ; it is he that hath made us , and not we ourselves ; we are the people of his hand , and the sheep of his pasture . " Jehovah , usually translated Lord , is a name given PRELIMINARY REMARKS . [ LECT . I.
... " " Know ye that the Lord he is God ; it is he that hath made us , and not we ourselves ; we are the people of his hand , and the sheep of his pasture . " Jehovah , usually translated Lord , is a name given PRELIMINARY REMARKS . [ LECT . I.
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... hand , and the sheep of his pasture . " These are the views which the devout Psalm- ist takes of the great Jehovah ; these are the senti- ments which he is desirous of impressing on the minds of others ; and this is the all - important ...
... hand , and the sheep of his pasture . " These are the views which the devout Psalm- ist takes of the great Jehovah ; these are the senti- ments which he is desirous of impressing on the minds of others ; and this is the all - important ...
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... hand , in seasons of retirement , if , when affliction had sobered down the passions , and the pros- pect of quitting forever this present scene had abated , if not destroyed , the prejudices of the mind , this belief were generally ...
... hand , in seasons of retirement , if , when affliction had sobered down the passions , and the pros- pect of quitting forever this present scene had abated , if not destroyed , the prejudices of the mind , this belief were generally ...
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Page 170 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 170 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 239 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence ? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, behold! thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea : Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 63 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here, hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces ; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Page 9 - The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed : 3 Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Page 90 - They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Page 249 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 90 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Page 10 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 219 - The intermixture of distinct species is guarded against by the aversion of the individuals composing them to sexual union, or by the sterility of the mule offspring. It does not appear that true hybrid races have ever been perpetuated for several generations, even by the assistance of man; for the cases usually cited relate to the crossing of mules with individuals of pure species, and not to the intermixture of hybrid with hybrid.