A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation ... Ninth editionWilliam Collins, 1830 - 281 pages |
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... nature and of providence , we can lay no limit on the condescension of God , or on the multiplicity of his regards even to the very humblest departments of creation ; and that it is not for us , who see the evidences of divine wisdom ...
... nature and of providence , we can lay no limit on the condescension of God , or on the multiplicity of his regards even to the very humblest departments of creation ; and that it is not for us , who see the evidences of divine wisdom ...
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... nature . It has the authority of the Sacred Writers upon its side , and even our Sa- viour himself gives it the weight and the solem- nity of his example . " Behold the lilies of the field ; they toil not , neither do they spin , yet ...
... nature . It has the authority of the Sacred Writers upon its side , and even our Sa- viour himself gives it the weight and the solem- nity of his example . " Behold the lilies of the field ; they toil not , neither do they spin , yet ...
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... nature . The Psalmist takes a still loftier flight . He leaves the world , and lifts his imagination to that mighty ... nature to the majesty of nature's Architect , he exclaims , " What is man , that thou art mindful of him ; or the son ...
... nature . The Psalmist takes a still loftier flight . He leaves the world , and lifts his imagination to that mighty ... nature to the majesty of nature's Architect , he exclaims , " What is man , that thou art mindful of him ; or the son ...
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... pas- sions and human anxieties . The mind aban- dons itself to reverie , and is transferred in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in the simplicity of her DISCOURSE I. 23.
... pas- sions and human anxieties . The mind aban- dons itself to reverie , and is transferred in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in the simplicity of her DISCOURSE I. 23.
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Thomas Chalmers. regions . It sees nature in the simplicity of her great elements , and it sees the God of nature in- vested with the high attributes of wisdom and majesty . But what can these lights be ? The curiosity of the human mind ...
Thomas Chalmers. regions . It sees nature in the simplicity of her great elements , and it sees the God of nature in- vested with the high attributes of wisdom and majesty . But what can these lights be ? The curiosity of the human mind ...
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A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation ... Ninth edition Thomas Chalmers Affichage du livre entier - 1822 |
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