History of Rationalism: Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology

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Carlton & Porter, 1867 - 525 páginas
 

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Página 210 - with woods, vineyards, fruits of all sorts, flowers also, with springs and fountains, very delectable to behold.” Strauss was but twenty-eight years old when his cold, passionless, and pungent piece of sceptical mechanism was presented to the world. Who would suspect that
Página 393 - is something of divineness. Labour, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven. Sweat of the brow ; and up from that to the sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart ; which includes all Kepler calculations, Newton meditations, all sciences, all spoken
Página 374 - state of religious petrification : “ In this we cannot be mistaken, that an open and professed disregard is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age ; that this evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis of the nation;is daily spreading through every part of it;
Página 393 - Since his mission is work, here is Carlyle's gospel which calls him to it : “ Work is of a religious nature ; all true work is sacred ; in all true work, were it but¿ true hand-labour,
Página 263 - A safe stronghold our God is still, A trusty shield and weapon; He'll help us clear from all the ill That bath us now o'ertaken. The ancient Prince of Hell
Página 259 - and so he sent this poor man in his place: is that it?” “Yes, dear child, that is just it. Every piece of bread and every drink of water that we give to the poor, or the sick, or the prisoners, for Jesus' sake, we give to Him. ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto
Página 273 - of nature; And when the sea does in upon them break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak.” But while the political status of Holland has been inferior and unobserved during the last century and a half, her important theological and religious career,—covering a much longer period than that,—is a theme of deep interest to every student of the history of the Church.
Página 273 - who, in addition to venting his spleen against the people, employs his wit upon the irrational land, calling it, “A country that draws fifty feet of water, In which men live as in the bold of nature;
Página 371 - a public manner, and in so celebrated a part of the world, as to render detection unavoidable. ¿ Now, according to Hume, these requisitions are not met
Página 105 - Astolpha did not meet a kinder reception in the palace of Alcuia. To be lodged in the same apartments that Marshal Saxe had occupied, to have the royal cooks at my command when I chose to dine alone, and the royal coachman when I had an inclination to ride, were trifling

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