 | William Cowper - 1826 - 504 pages
...impelled • , ceaseless service by a ceaseless force, Lnd under pressure of some conscious cause ? Plic Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. V' t lire is but a name for an effect, »Vhose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire 3y which the... | |
 | 1828 - 438 pages
...which WH call nature have their source and origin, in the power of the Deity in constant exercise. " The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains,...is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God." — COWPEB. Let him withdraw for a moment, his preserving energy from creation, and all things would... | |
 | 1828 - 394 pages
...force, And under pressure of some conscious cause ? The Lord of all, himself through all diffus'd, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire, By which the mighty process is maintain'd, Who sleeps not ; is not weary... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...conscious cause ? The Lord of all, himself through all difl'us'd, Sustains, and is the life of all mat lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the sacred fire By which the mighty process is maintain'd, Who sleeps not, is not weary ;... | |
 | John Samuel Thompson - 1828 - 170 pages
...testimony can prove a miracle ;" and talk loudly of Nature and its laws. But Cowper has well said : Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God. The uniform course of circumstances, in animal and vegetable life, which we daily observe, does not... | |
 | Christian Mariner, Christian mariner - 1829 - 290 pages
...pride, and not sunk in ignorance, avows it; and the poorest reptiles which crawl the earth, prove it. " The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains,...is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God." What a rich and diversified picture does the gilded heaven present to us on a clear night! Cold must... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...unless impell'd To ceaseless service by a ceaseless force, And under pressure of some conscious cause ? The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains,...Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire, By which the mighty process is maintain'd, Who sleeps not, is not weary ;... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...force, And under pressure of some conscious cause f The Lord of all, himself through all diffus'd, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire By which the mighty process is maintain'd, Who sleeps not, is not weary ;... | |
 | George Townsend - 1830 - 540 pages
...Omnipotent ; and there is no such thing as nature, considered as a system of laws, independent of God. Nature is but a name, for an effect, whose cause is God. All is God, and the laws of God. The common course of things is the usual law, and a miracle is nothing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...conscious cause? The Lord of all, himwlf through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that liven. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the sacred fire By which tlie mighty process is maintained ; Who sleeps not, is not weary... | |
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The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. 
