Memoirs and Select Remains of an Only Son: Who Died November 27, 1821, in His 19th Year, While a Student in the University of Glasgow, Volume 2T. Hamilton, 1822 |
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Page 223 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth ; and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: — but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 267 - And when I saw him I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying : Fear not ; I am the first and the last, and the Living One ; and no . I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
Page 266 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
Page 171 - There are, as in philosophy, so in divinity, sturdy doubts and boisterous objections, wherewith the unhappiness of our knowledge too nearly acquainteth us. More of these no man hath known than myself, which I confess I conquered, not in a martial posture, but on my knees.
Page 264 - O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, 95 my son ! 19.1.
Page 168 - Much less is it to be thought that holy men of God, who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, could speak otherwise than accurately.
Page 170 - CEdipus, and will upon a reasonable truce, find a way to loose those bonds wherewith the subtleties of error have enchained our more flexible and tender judgments.
Page 224 - Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity. REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 170 - I must confess my greener studies have been polluted with two or three, not any begotten in the latter centuries, but old and obsolete, such as could never have been revived, but by such extravagant and irregular heads as mine...
Page 170 - In philosophy, where truth seems double-faced, there is no man more paradoxical than myself. But in divinity I love to keep the road ; and though not in an implicit, yet an humble faith, follow the great wheel of the church, by which I move, not reserving any proper poles or motion from the epicycle of my own brain.