The Philosophy of a Future StateSolomon King, 1831 - 276 páginas |
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... virtues which will prepare him for the enjoy- ment of celestial bliss - is the Author's most sincere and ardent wish , as it was the great object he had in view when engaged in its composition . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . - Importance of ...
... virtues which will prepare him for the enjoy- ment of celestial bliss - is the Author's most sincere and ardent wish , as it was the great object he had in view when engaged in its composition . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . - Importance of ...
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... virtue a mere phantom , the Creator a capricious being , and his plans and arrangements an inextricable maze . There is too much reason to believe , that the indifference to religion , which so generally prevails , especially among ...
... virtue a mere phantom , the Creator a capricious being , and his plans and arrangements an inextricable maze . There is too much reason to believe , that the indifference to religion , which so generally prevails , especially among ...
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... virtues and vices , which are commonly the conse- quences of the education it has received , and the causes of eternal happiness or misery . " Having held such dis- courses with his friends , he kept silent for some time , and then ...
... virtues and vices , which are commonly the conse- quences of the education it has received , and the causes of eternal happiness or misery . " Having held such dis- courses with his friends , he kept silent for some time , and then ...
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... virtues are rewarded , and that crimes are punished , in another state of existence . The poems of Ovid and Virgil contain a variety of descriptions , in which the same opinions are involved . Their notions of future punishment are set ...
... virtues are rewarded , and that crimes are punished , in another state of existence . The poems of Ovid and Virgil contain a variety of descriptions , in which the same opinions are involved . Their notions of future punishment are set ...
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... virtue and moral excellence . It forms a powerful stimulus to the performance of actions which are noble , generous , public - spirited , benevolent , and humane , and which have a tendency to promote the intel- lectual improvement ...
... virtue and moral excellence . It forms a powerful stimulus to the performance of actions which are noble , generous , public - spirited , benevolent , and humane , and which have a tendency to promote the intel- lectual improvement ...
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Página 247 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?
Página 135 - The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
Página 177 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars : For one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
Página 111 - Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Página 228 - Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Página 137 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 113 - I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
Página 45 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Página 23 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven...
Página 111 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.