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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... proofs and illus- trations of so varied a kind , in touching on so many points of a difficult and delicate nature , in so many dis- quisitions of an abstract and metaphysical kind , it would be strange indeed , if both friends and ...
... proofs and illus- trations of so varied a kind , in touching on so many points of a difficult and delicate nature , in so many dis- quisitions of an abstract and metaphysical kind , it would be strange indeed , if both friends and ...
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... PROOFS . PREL . REM . Introduction - Importance of the subject - Rea- sons for taking it peculiar to the present time Address on the proposed method - to Christians- to Unbelievers THE ARGUMENT STATED . The great point of Controversy ...
... PROOFS . PREL . REM . Introduction - Importance of the subject - Rea- sons for taking it peculiar to the present time Address on the proposed method - to Christians- to Unbelievers THE ARGUMENT STATED . The great point of Controversy ...
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... PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD FROM THE WORKS OF NATURE . Introduction - Selection necessary - the Nature of the Argument — Atheistic Exceptions to it notic- ed - no Experience to guide us - the necessary Laws of Matter - the Proofs to ...
... PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD FROM THE WORKS OF NATURE . Introduction - Selection necessary - the Nature of the Argument — Atheistic Exceptions to it notic- ed - no Experience to guide us - the necessary Laws of Matter - the Proofs to ...
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... PROOFS . PSALM C. 3. " KNOW YE THAT THE LORD HE IS GOD ; IT IS HE THAT HATH MADE US , AND NOT WE OURSELVES ; WE ARE HIS PEOPLE , AND THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE . " It seems to be a law of our nature , given for the most beneficial ...
... PROOFS . PSALM C. 3. " KNOW YE THAT THE LORD HE IS GOD ; IT IS HE THAT HATH MADE US , AND NOT WE OURSELVES ; WE ARE HIS PEOPLE , AND THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE . " It seems to be a law of our nature , given for the most beneficial ...
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... proof is advanced from the pulpit on the subject , or that it is treated in an argumentative way . sary to prove what all admit , or to adduce evidence of what is commonly received with the certainty of an ax- iom . But there may be ...
... proof is advanced from the pulpit on the subject , or that it is treated in an argumentative way . sary to prove what all admit , or to adduce evidence of what is commonly received with the certainty of an ax- iom . But there may be ...
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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.