Twelve Monday lectures in Tremont temple, Boston1877 |
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... turn to the Old Testament , that they are they which testify of him . Now , if there be some passages of the Bible that contain these prophetic announcements , then the Teacher thus announced is divinely attested , and we are to listen ...
... turn to the Old Testament , that they are they which testify of him . Now , if there be some passages of the Bible that contain these prophetic announcements , then the Teacher thus announced is divinely attested , and we are to listen ...
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... turn aside ; and , although we have assent , we have no consent to God , and we take up arms against the fact that he is our Saviour and Lord . of us believe this , and by Divine grace are glad . We have assent and consent both . We ...
... turn aside ; and , although we have assent , we have no consent to God , and we take up arms against the fact that he is our Saviour and Lord . of us believe this , and by Divine grace are glad . We have assent and consent both . We ...
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... turns away from it . But that effect itself becomes a cause . Keep your eyes upon your Shakespeare , upon your Greek poets , or upon whatever is a good mirror of human nature , and tell me whether these six propositions are not all ...
... turns away from it . But that effect itself becomes a cause . Keep your eyes upon your Shakespeare , upon your Greek poets , or upon whatever is a good mirror of human nature , and tell me whether these six propositions are not all ...
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... turns away from it . Then the virtues which that light ought to quicken are allowed to languish . The vices which ... turns . According to the direction in which he turns with his supreme affection he grows ; and as he grows he balances ...
... turns away from it . Then the virtues which that light ought to quicken are allowed to languish . The vices which ... turns . According to the direction in which he turns with his supreme affection he grows ; and as he grows he balances ...
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... turning , he maintains the irreversi- bleness of all natural forces , one of which is the insufferably majestic law by which character tends to assume final permanence - good as well as bad . 4. Under irreversible natural law there may ...
... turning , he maintains the irreversi- bleness of all natural forces , one of which is the insufferably majestic law by which character tends to assume final permanence - good as well as bad . 4. Under irreversible natural law there may ...
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adoration affirm assert atonement attributes believe Bible biblical bliss Boston Carlyle character tends Charles Kingsley Christ Christianity Church colour conscience definition Deity dissimilarity of feeling Divine Nature doctrine Emerson eternal eternal sin existence after death fact Father final permanence Frederika Bremer God hates God's hates heart Heaven Holy Ghost Holy Person Holy Spirit human Immanence immortality incommunicable incontrovertible Infinite inspiration instinct intuition irreversible natural law JOSEPH COOK judicial blindness Julius Müller light look Lord majestic mean moral law reveals moral system nature of things never origin of evil Orthodoxy Over-Soul pain pantheism peace perfect philosophy Pionius proclaimed proposition rainbow religion religious science rushlights Saviour scheme of thought scientific method Scriptures self-propagating power sense sentiment Shakespeare solar radiance soul staircase supreme teaches Testament Theism theme theocracy Theodore Parker thinker thou three subsistences transfigured Trinity tritheism universe word worship
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Page 35 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Page 79 - I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Page 11 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 4 - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.
Page 77 - What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me : and again, A little while, and ye shall see me : and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while ? We cannot tell what he saith.
Page 58 - O thou Eternal One ! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight, Thou only God : — there is no God beside ! Being above all beings ! Three in one ! Whom none can comprehend, and none explore...
Page 8 - ... in themselves just, right, good; others to be in themselves evil, wrong, unjust; which, without being consulted, without being advised with, magisterially exerts itself, and approves or condemns him, the doer of them, accordingly; and which, if not forcibly stopped, naturally and always of course goes on to anticipate a higher and more effectual sentence, which shall hereafter second and affirm its own.
Page 11 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 117 - God the Father of Lights, from Whom cometh down every good and perfect gift...
Page 35 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!