The Works of Orville Dewey, D.D. ...Simms and M'Intyre, 1844 - 887 pages |
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... experience ; but it is conduct too : it is high meditation ; but then it is also humble vir- tue . It is excitement , it is earnestness ; but no less truly is it calmness . Let me dwell upon this last point a moment . It is not uncommon ...
... experience ; but it is conduct too : it is high meditation ; but then it is also humble vir- tue . It is excitement , it is earnestness ; but no less truly is it calmness . Let me dwell upon this last point a moment . It is not uncommon ...
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... experience of another , and it contri- butes to his satisfaction , of course , to have the same experience . refreshing is it , amidst this dull and artificial uniformity , to meet with a man whose religion is his own ; who has thought ...
... experience of another , and it contri- butes to his satisfaction , of course , to have the same experience . refreshing is it , amidst this dull and artificial uniformity , to meet with a man whose religion is his own ; who has thought ...
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... experience - to make a hasty effort , to have a paroxysm of emotion , to give way to a feverish and transient feeling , and then to smother and quench all the rising purposes of a better life . But true religion comes to us with a wiser ...
... experience - to make a hasty effort , to have a paroxysm of emotion , to give way to a feverish and transient feeling , and then to smother and quench all the rising purposes of a better life . But true religion comes to us with a wiser ...
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... experienced person , " or , he is " a Christian if ever there was one : " but it seems , even when the religious ... experience . Is religion , I ask - not the religion of poetry , but that which exists in the actual conceptions of ...
... experienced person , " or , he is " a Christian if ever there was one : " but it seems , even when the religious ... experience . Is religion , I ask - not the religion of poetry , but that which exists in the actual conceptions of ...
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... experience - from the inward sense of it . But not to dwell on this : my principal object under this head of dis- course is to maintain , that religion should appeal chiefly , not to the lowest , but to the highest of our moral ...
... experience - from the inward sense of it . But not to dwell on this : my principal object under this head of dis- course is to maintain , that religion should appeal chiefly , not to the lowest , but to the highest of our moral ...
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Page 121 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 507 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 148 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 573 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty ; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Page 183 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 451 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 81 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear...
Page 469 - Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,) that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world; but now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Page 433 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 502 - Toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead (and set him at his own right hand, in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world but in that which is to come.