Aids to Reflection ...: With the Author's Last CorrectionsStanford & Swords, 1847 - 322 pages |
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Aids to Reflection answer APHORISM Apostle argument Arminian assertion Baptism believe Bishop called Calvinistic cause character Christ Christian Church of England common conscience consequences conviction death Deist distinction divine doctrine edition effect essential evil existence express fact faculty faith feel give Gospel grace ground hath heart holy human idea Infant Baptism instance instinct Irenæus Jeremy Taylor JOHN HENRY HOBART judgment knowledge language lastly least LEIGHTON AND COLERIDGE light living mankind means metaphorical mind moral mystery nature Necessitarian necessity notion object original original sin outward Pantheism Paul perfect perfect law persons philosophy prayer present principle proof Prothesis prudence purpose question reader reason redemption religion religious scheme Scripture seek sense Socinian sophisms soul speak spirit spiritual suppose teach things thou thought tion tism true truth uncon understanding virtue volume words writings
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Page 95 - 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 ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 11 - LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of Glory ringing in our ears : Without, our shame ; within, our consciences : Angels and grace, eternal hopes and...
Page 42 - He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Page 5 - ... 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 161 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Page 72 - 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 322 - 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 177 - In wonder all philosophy began ; in wonder it ends ; and admiration fills up the interspace. But the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance : the last is the parent of adoration.
Page 244 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 46 - Whatever is comprised in the Chain and Mechanism of Cause and Effect, of course necessitated, and having its necessity in some other thing, antecedent or concurrent — this is said to be Natural ; and the Aggregate and System of all such things is NATURE.