Lectures on the Moral Government of God, المجلد 1Clark, Austin & Smith, 1859 - 427 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 247 - God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
الصفحة 286 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
الصفحة 168 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
الصفحة 175 - For I say unto you: God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
الصفحة 382 - I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion...
الصفحة 357 - God by the weak pinions of our reason, but he has been pleased to descend to us; and what Socrates said of him, what Plato writ, and the rest of the heathen philosophers of several nations, is all no more than the twilight of revelation, after the sun of it was set in the race of Noah.
الصفحة 382 - Be ready always to give an answer to every one that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.
الصفحة 372 - ... justice is not a natural, but artificial virtue, depending wholly on the arbitrary institutions of men, and previous to the establishment of civil society not at all incumbent ; that moral, intellectual, and corporeal virtue are all of the same kind; that adultery must be practiced if men would obtain all the advantages of this life; that, if generally practiced, it would soon cease to be scandalous, and that, if practiced secretly and frequently, it would by degrees come to be thought no crime...
الصفحة 76 - Authority is recognized in words, and even in unreflecting thought and action; as when we speak of the rising and setting of the sun, or of the sweetness of sugar, or the coldness of ice, as properties of these things which resemble our sensations.
الصفحة 260 - Lord, for whom he suffered the loss of all things, and counted them but dung, that he might win Christ.