Lectures in Defence of Divine Revelation: Delivered at the Universalist Chapel, in Providence, R. I.S. W. Wheeler, 1831 - 240 páginas |
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... mean by nature ? Do they mean any thing more than the materials which compose the solar system , of which the globe we inhabit is a part ? If this be their mean- ing , then nature , according to their system , is noth- ing more nor less ...
... mean by nature ? Do they mean any thing more than the materials which compose the solar system , of which the globe we inhabit is a part ? If this be their mean- ing , then nature , according to their system , is noth- ing more nor less ...
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... means of escaping whatever portends their dan- ger of injury or pain . The hypothesis , therefore , that matter is necessarily possessed of intelligence , denotes a credulity and extravagance bordering up- on madness . Perhaps we may be ...
... means of escaping whatever portends their dan- ger of injury or pain . The hypothesis , therefore , that matter is necessarily possessed of intelligence , denotes a credulity and extravagance bordering up- on madness . Perhaps we may be ...
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... mean by the laws of na- ture - or by any laws ? Do they not know that laws are the result of wisdom , of thought , reflection , cal- culation or design ? And can there be design , with- out a designer ? We have before shown that intelli ...
... mean by the laws of na- ture - or by any laws ? Do they not know that laws are the result of wisdom , of thought , reflection , cal- culation or design ? And can there be design , with- out a designer ? We have before shown that intelli ...
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... means made to cease or disappear . But we de- mand - how do our opponents know that matter is incapable of being destroyed ? Have they any de- monstrative proof of what they assert ? Permit me , then , to tell them that this is a mere ...
... means made to cease or disappear . But we de- mand - how do our opponents know that matter is incapable of being destroyed ? Have they any de- monstrative proof of what they assert ? Permit me , then , to tell them that this is a mere ...
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... means of securing that constant obe- dience , which would invariably promote our own , and the highest enjoyment of the moral creation of God . In a word ; the sum of all his moral require- ments is to imitate the displays of his ...
... means of securing that constant obe- dience , which would invariably promote our own , and the highest enjoyment of the moral creation of God . In a word ; the sum of all his moral require- ments is to imitate the displays of his ...
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Página 97 - 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 45 - 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 109 - 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 152 - 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 121 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest...
Página 156 - 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 19 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 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 152 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Página 179 - 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...
Página 230 - What prepossession, what blindness must it be to compare the son of Sophronicus to the son of Mary! What an infinite disproportion there is between them! Socrates dying without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was anything more than a vain sophist.