A Treatise on Self KnowledgeT. Tegg, 1821 - 242 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12
... capable of immortality . And that they are actually im- mortal , or will never die , the sacred scriptures do abundantly testify . Let us , then , hereupon seriously recollect ourselves in the following soliloquy : " O 12 A TREATISE ON.
... capable of immortality . And that they are actually im- mortal , or will never die , the sacred scriptures do abundantly testify . Let us , then , hereupon seriously recollect ourselves in the following soliloquy : " O 12 A TREATISE ON.
Pàgina 16
... scripture and reason have let in upon this dark and important subject . " Compose thy thoughts , O my soul , and ima- gine how it will fare with thee when thou goest , a naked , unembodied spirit , into a world , an un- known world of ...
... scripture and reason have let in upon this dark and important subject . " Compose thy thoughts , O my soul , and ima- gine how it will fare with thee when thou goest , a naked , unembodied spirit , into a world , an un- known world of ...
Pàgina 29
... scripture language , the flesh and the spirit ) , of which some of the wisest heathens seemed not to be ignorant ... scriptures have sufficiently SELF - KNOWLEDGE . 29.
... scripture language , the flesh and the spirit ) , of which some of the wisest heathens seemed not to be ignorant ... scriptures have sufficiently SELF - KNOWLEDGE . 29.
Pàgina 30
John Mason. • how that came about the sacred scriptures have sufficiently informed us ) , and that it is not what it was when it came originally out of the hands of its Maker ; so that the words which St. Paul spake , with reference to ...
John Mason. • how that came about the sacred scriptures have sufficiently informed us ) , and that it is not what it was when it came originally out of the hands of its Maker ; so that the words which St. Paul spake , with reference to ...
Pàgina 49
... Scripture , their own iniquities , Psal . xviii . 23 ; and the sins which " do most easily beset them . ” Heb . xii . 1 . " As in the humours of the body , so , in the vices of the mind , there is one predominant , which has an ...
... Scripture , their own iniquities , Psal . xviii . 23 ; and the sins which " do most easily beset them . ” Heb . xii . 1 . " As in the humours of the body , so , in the vices of the mind , there is one predominant , which has an ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 83 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Pàgina 87 - Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Pàgina 30 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Pàgina 6 - For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Pàgina 23 - But now, O Lord, thou art our father ; We are the clay, and thou our potter; And we all are the work of thy hand.
Pàgina 172 - DISTRUST, and darkness of a future state, Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate. Death, in itself, is nothing ; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
Pàgina 144 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Pàgina 100 - Anger may steal into the heart " of a wise man, but it rests only in the bosom "of fools.
Pàgina 112 - I shall conclude with this one observation more; that it is a very dangerous thing to think, as too many are apt to do, that it is a matter of indifference what thoughts they entertain in their hearts, since the reason of things concurs with the testimony of the holy Scripture to assure us, ' That the allowed thought of foolishness is sin.
Pàgina xii - The highest learning is to be wise, and the greatest wisdom is to be good;" as Marcus Antoninus somewhere observes.