God in Human Thought: Or, Natural Theology Traced in Literature, Ancient and Modern, to the Time of Bishop Butler, Volum 1

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Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874 - 416 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 245 - ... the Jews acknowledge one God only, and him they see in the mind's eye, and him they adore in contemplation, condemning, as impious idolators, all who with perishable materials, wrought into the human form, attempt to give a representation of the Deity. The God of the Jews is the great governing mind (»'), that directs and guides the whole frame of nature, eternal, infinite, and neither capable of change, nor subject to decay.
Pàgina 37 - The soul itself is its own witness; the soul itself is its own refuge; offend not thy conscious soul, the supreme internal witness of men!
Pàgina 155 - Simmias and Cebes, if I did not think that I should go first of all amongst other deities who are both wise and good, and, next, amongst men who have departed this life, better than any here, I should be wrong in not grieving at death : but now be assured, I hope to go amongst good men, though I would not positively assert it, that, however, I shall go amongst...
Pàgina 135 - of Xenophon, which prove that the practical piety of Socrates was in accordance with his sound speculative theology : — " He was persuaded the gods watched over the actions and affairs of men in a way altogether different from what the vulgar imagined ; for while these limited their knowledge to some particulars only, Socrates, on the contrary, extended it to all ; firmly persuaded, that every word, every action, nay, even our most retired deliberations, were open to their view ; that they were...
Pàgina 104 - Amasis to Polycrates thus sayeth: It is a pleasure to hear of a friend and ally prospering, but thy exceeding prosperity does not cause me joy, forasmuch as I know that the gods are envious. My wish for myself, and for those whom I love, is, to be now successful, and now to meet with a check; thus passing through life amid alternate good and ill, rather than with perpetual good fortune.
Pàgina 136 - Even among all those deities who so liberally bestow on us good things, not one of them maketh himself an object of our sight. And He who raised this whole universe, and still upholds the mighty frame, who perfected every part of it in beauty and in goodness, suffering none of these parts to decay through age, but renewing them daily with unfading vigor, whereby they are able to execute whatever he ordains with that readiness and precision which surpass man's imagination ; even He, the supreme God,...
Pàgina 312 - A being full of contradictions, he is the most wretched of creatures ; since the other creatures have no wants transcending the bounds of their nature. Man is full of desires and wants that reach to infinity, and can never be satisfied. His nature is a lie, uniting the greatest poverty with the greatest pride. Among these so great evils, the best thing God has bestowed on man is the power to take his own life.
Pàgina 249 - We have here the features of the inward man. His crimes retaliated upon him with the keenest retribution ; so true is the saying of the great philosopher," tbe oracle of ancient wisdom, that • if the minds of tyrants were laid open to our view, we should see them gashed and mangled with the whips and stings of horror and remorse. By blows and stripes the flesh is made to quiver, and, in like manner, cruelty and inordinate passions, malice and evil deeds, become internal executioners, and with unceasing...
Pàgina 105 - Seest thou how God with his lightning smites always the bigger animals, and will not suffer them to wax insolent, while those of a lesser bulk chafe him not? How likewise his bolts fall ever on the highest houses and the tallest trees? So plainly does He love to bring down everything that exalts itself.
Pàgina 379 - Rationaliste ; since they teach that all knowledge is attained through Reason, and must necessarily be so attained ; that therefore the discrimination of good and evil is within the province of Reason ; that nothing is known to be wrong or right until Reason has distinguished them ; that man has perfect freedom, is the author of his own actions both good and evil, and deserves reward or punishment accordingly. They uphold the unity and the justice of God ; teach that the tendency of actions to the...

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