The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas. Vol. 1-50; 51, no. 3- ol. 63, Volume 2David Thomas |
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... expression to the idea of this class as any we have seen . Benedict Spinoza , a metaphysical sage of Amsterdam , first threw this idea into a scientific form . Descartes had defined a substance to be , " a thing which so exists as not ...
... expression to the idea of this class as any we have seen . Benedict Spinoza , a metaphysical sage of Amsterdam , first threw this idea into a scientific form . Descartes had defined a substance to be , " a thing which so exists as not ...
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... expressions of himself . What they are , he is . The history of his government is the history of HIMSELF . Irrespon- sible power in a creature would be despotism , but in God it has , from the beginning , been mercy . He could have ...
... expressions of himself . What they are , he is . The history of his government is the history of HIMSELF . Irrespon- sible power in a creature would be despotism , but in God it has , from the beginning , been mercy . He could have ...
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... expressing his judgments upon these things - and these , pre - eminently , I call " precious thoughts . " Other thoughts of God may interest me - these implicate me . David's exclamation has reference to God's providential care . It is ...
... expressing his judgments upon these things - and these , pre - eminently , I call " precious thoughts . " Other thoughts of God may interest me - these implicate me . David's exclamation has reference to God's providential care . It is ...
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... expression . I love individual freedom of thinking . It brings out human nature in its native variety . It is life as contrasted with the dead uniformity of conventional habits , and the novelty of it generates the spirit of forgiveness ...
... expression . I love individual freedom of thinking . It brings out human nature in its native variety . It is life as contrasted with the dead uniformity of conventional habits , and the novelty of it generates the spirit of forgiveness ...
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... expression , I must conclude it is only the novelty of a thick fog of words covering a very barren field of common - place thought . If the teaching of one's own subjectivity - the mere instinct of a man's thought - be the best guide ...
... expression , I must conclude it is only the novelty of a thick fog of words covering a very barren field of common - place thought . If the teaching of one's own subjectivity - the mere instinct of a man's thought - be the best guide ...
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Page 36 - Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee, Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 206 - From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Page 30 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Page 331 - Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there ; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Page 381 - Every man's work shall be made manifest. For the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire ; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Page 253 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 336 - The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Page 231 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste And natural in gesture...
Page 206 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Page 332 - Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.