Reason, the Only Oracle of Man: Or, A Compenduous System of Natural ReligionMendum, Cornhill, 1854 - 171 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 74
... PRAYER CANNOT BE ATTENDED WITH MIRACULOUS CONSEQUENCES . PRAYER to God is no part of a rational religion , nor did reason ever dictate it , but , was it duly attended to , it would teach us the contrary . To make known our wants to God ...
... PRAYER CANNOT BE ATTENDED WITH MIRACULOUS CONSEQUENCES . PRAYER to God is no part of a rational religion , nor did reason ever dictate it , but , was it duly attended to , it would teach us the contrary . To make known our wants to God ...
الصفحة 75
... prayer , it has none at all , that extends to the final events and conse- quences of things . To pray to God with a sense , that the prayer we are making will not be granted any more for our making it , or that our prayer will make no ...
... prayer , it has none at all , that extends to the final events and conse- quences of things . To pray to God with a sense , that the prayer we are making will not be granted any more for our making it , or that our prayer will make no ...
الصفحة 76
... prayer of man . Our great proficients in prayer must need think them- selves to be of great importance in the scale of being , otherwise they would not indulge themselves in the no- tion , that the God of nature would subvert his laws ...
... prayer of man . Our great proficients in prayer must need think them- selves to be of great importance in the scale of being , otherwise they would not indulge themselves in the no- tion , that the God of nature would subvert his laws ...
الصفحة 77
... prayer could amount to no more than this , viz : that God would not regard them at all , but that he would conduct the kingdom of his providence agreeable to the absolute perfections of his nature ; and who in the exercise of common ...
... prayer could amount to no more than this , viz : that God would not regard them at all , but that he would conduct the kingdom of his providence agreeable to the absolute perfections of his nature ; and who in the exercise of common ...
الصفحة 78
... praying for , but by actual exertion ; and the only way to obtain vir- tue or morality is to practice and habituate ourselves to it , and not to pray to God for it : he has naturally fur- nished us with talents or faculties suitable for ...
... praying for , but by actual exertion ; and the only way to obtain vir- tue or morality is to practice and habituate ourselves to it , and not to pray to God for it : he has naturally fur- nished us with talents or faculties suitable for ...
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الصفحة 96 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
الصفحة 98 - The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, what meat ye that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge ; as I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
الصفحة 126 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
الصفحة 86 - And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
الصفحة 90 - Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
الصفحة 95 - So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
الصفحة 92 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
الصفحة 106 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
الصفحة 81 - So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the Lord fought for Israel.
الصفحة 85 - And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.