Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality and Religion |
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answer APHORISM Apostle Arminian Article asserted Baptism believe Bishop Body called Calvinistic cause character Christ Christian Church Church of England common Conscience consequences contradiction contrary conviction Creature Death Deism Deist distinction Divine doctrine effect Epicurean essential eternal evil existence express fact faculty faith fear feelings former Gospel grace ground hath heart Heaven Holy human Idea Infant Baptism instance Instinct Irenæus Jeremy Taylor Judaizing judgment knowledge language latter least Light Mankind means metaphorical mind moral Mystery Nature necessity ness Notion objects Original Original Sin outward Pantheism Paul perfect perfect law Philosophy Plato present principle proof proper Prothesis prudence purpose question Reader reality Reason receive Redemption reflect Religion religious scheme Scripture sense sensible sophisms soul speak Spirit suppose term Tertullian things thou thought tion Transubstantiation true truth Understanding Unitarian virtue whole words World
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Page 190 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Page 112 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Page 279 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 368 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Page 87 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 89 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 35 - If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable.
Page 6 - An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a single passion or " subtle bosom sin," -will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the habit, of reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them.
Page 99 - ... advanced towards him, contemplate the filial and loyal bee ; the home-building, wedded, and divorceless swallow ; and above all the manifoldly intelligent* ant tribes, with their commonwealths and confederacies, their warriors and miners, the husbandfolk, that fold in their tiny flocks on the honeyed leaf, and the virgin sisters with the holy instincts of maternal love, detached and in selfless purity — and not say to himself, Behold the shadow of approaching humanity, the sun rising from behind,...
Page 76 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.