Lectures in Defence of Divine Revelation: Delivered at the Universalist Chapel, in Providence, R. I.S. W. Wheeler, 1830 - 216 páginas |
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... happiness of his creatures . All other perfections which are supposed to dwell in him , are rather different displays of the power , wisdom and good- ness of God , than original and primary attributes of the divine nature . Who can gaze ...
... happiness of his creatures . All other perfections which are supposed to dwell in him , are rather different displays of the power , wisdom and good- ness of God , than original and primary attributes of the divine nature . Who can gaze ...
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... happiness . What possible reason , then , can be urged that man should not be furnished with that kind of instruction which is so per- fectly suited to the elevation of his moral nature ? No rea- son can be assigned why he should not be ...
... happiness . What possible reason , then , can be urged that man should not be furnished with that kind of instruction which is so per- fectly suited to the elevation of his moral nature ? No rea- son can be assigned why he should not be ...
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... happiness , that being already in- finitely full and perfect . The conclusion is then unavoid- able , that he requires no service of his creatures , except that which would conduce to their own , and the happiness of beings like ...
... happiness , that being already in- finitely full and perfect . The conclusion is then unavoid- able , that he requires no service of his creatures , except that which would conduce to their own , and the happiness of beings like ...
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... happiness of our species , whose condi- tion is evidently such as to admit of continual improve- ment . We also offered some plain and pointed arguments , showing the fitness , the duty , the reasonableness , neces- sity and moral ...
... happiness of our species , whose condi- tion is evidently such as to admit of continual improve- ment . We also offered some plain and pointed arguments , showing the fitness , the duty , the reasonableness , neces- sity and moral ...
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... happiness , the moral virtue and usefulness of its inhabitants . To accomplish this object , we shall plainly and faithfully contrast the situation of man , while left to the sole guidance of nature , reason and phi- losophy , with his ...
... happiness , the moral virtue and usefulness of its inhabitants . To accomplish this object , we shall plainly and faithfully contrast the situation of man , while left to the sole guidance of nature , reason and phi- losophy , with his ...
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Página 89 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands...
Página 122 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it...
Página 41 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Página 99 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Página 18 - Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Página 136 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Página 140 - Now there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man ; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.
Página 205 - Is it possible that a book, at once so simple and sublime, should be merely the work of man ? Is it possible that the sacred personage, whose history it contains, should be himself a mere man...
Página 206 - Socrates peaceably philosophizing with his friends, appears the most agreeable that could be wished for ; that of Jesus, expiring in the midst of agonizing pains, abused, insulted and accused by a whole nation, is the most horrible that could be feared. Socrates in receiving the cup of poison, blessed...
Página 159 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...