Papers on Literary and Philosophical Subjects: Including a Selection from Contributions to Various PeriodicalsJohnstone and Hunter, 1852 - 342 pages |
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Page 19 - I could discharge) to serve her majesty ; not as a man born under Sol, that loveth honour ; nor under Jupiter, that loveth business (for the contemplative planet carrieth me away wholly) ; but as a man born under an excellent sovereign, that deserveth the dedication of all men's abilities.
Page 87 - There is no question of importance, whose decision is not comprised in the science of man ; and there is none, which can be decided with any certainty, before we become acquainted with that science.
Page 235 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man.
Page 226 - Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 221 - Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after that they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own Providence, not the interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.
Page 88 - Nothing is that, whereby we distinctly show other particular contradictions. But here we are run up to our first principle, and have no other to explain the nothingness, or not being, of Nothing by. Indeed, we can mean nothing else by Nothing...
Page 312 - ... proposed, which offers its claims to him, and asks his assent, which he may give or refuse, he feels himself placed in the situation of an equal and a judge with respect to his professor : and if, as is very likely to be the case with active-minded young speculators, he goes through several phases of...
Page 74 - Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God's glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriads of ages hence.
Page 54 - ... consolation at the conclusion of these lectures, if, by a wide survey and an exact examination of the conditions and relations of human nature, I shall have confirmed but one individual in the conviction that justice is the permanent interest of all men, and of all commonwealths. To discover one new link of that eternal chain, by which the Author of the universe has bound together the happiness and the duty of his creatures, and indissolubly fastened their interests to each other, would fill...
Page 105 - Calvinism, as distinguished from Arminianism, encircles or involves GREAT TRUTHS, which, whether dimly or clearly discerned — whether defended in Scriptural simplicity of language, or deformed by grievous perversions, will never be abandoned while the Bible continues to be devoutly read ; and which, if they might indeed be subverted, would drag to the same ruin every doctrine of revealed religion.