An essay on intuitive morals [by F.P. Cobbe] 2 pt, Volumen2 |
Términos y frases comunes
absolute absurd actions actually adoration affections anthropomorphism apostacies Arian asceticism atheism beautiful believe blasphemy blessed Christ Church claims conscience consciousness creatures creed crime declension Deity demonolatry desire Divine doctrine earnest earth Edward Wightman error ethical everlasting evil existence faith Father fault fear feel finite George Jacob Holyoake give God's gratitude guilt happiness heart heaven heresy holy honour human idea idolatry infinite intellectual justice less living Lord means mind minister of religion monotheism moral attributes moral law moral perfection nature never obedience obey obligation ourselves PANTHEISM perjury persecution Personal Duty philosophy piety pray prayer punishment pure rational recognised religion religious duty religious offence Repentance retribution reverence righteous sacrifice sacrilege scepticism seek sense sentiments sins Social Duties soul spirit stand suffering suppose thanksgiving Theodore Parker theology things thou thought tion true truth universe veneration virtue wherein whole worship
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Página 161 - Also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them." Paley proves clearly enough, that though referred back to the Christian, Creation, the Sabbath was
Página 154 - adore the majesty of that Divine Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who gives all delights, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards His holy seat."—
Página 132 - We humbly beseech Thee, that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain and waters, yet upon our true repentance Thou wilt send us such weather as that we may receive the fruits of the earth,
Página 161 - Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath .... it is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever.
Página 161 - Do not kill. 2. Do not steal. 3. Do not commit adultery. 4. Do not lie. 5. Do not slander. 6. Do not call ill names. 7. Do not speak words which are to no purpose but harm. 8. Do not covet the property of others. 9. Do not envy. 10. Do not
Página 176 - of peace and love. The crouching slave shrinks no more from, the lash with the pitiful cry, " Spare us, good Lord ! Deal not with us according" to our sins, neither reward us according to our iniquities." The degradation, which lay in the sin itself, is not further deepened
Página 53 - owed to God, is altogether evanescent and undistinguishable. When we find the precept of Christ, to " fear him who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell,
Página 121 - necessitated matter, so He inspires and helps free and conscious man. There is a natural supply for spiritual as for corporeal wants. As we have bodily senses to lay hold on and supply bodily wants, so we have spiritual faculties to lay hold on God and supply spiritual wants.
Página 214 - wherein, while using every power and every affection of his humanity, a man takes also his part in that glorious heritage which belongs to the whole of his existence, mortal and immortal, and here and now, beyond and above all earthly things, seeks, and serves, and loves the Lord his God " with all his heart, and soul, and strength.
Página 32 - stories, I say, were bandied from Catholic to heretic, and from heretic to Catholic, in a way which really afforded to the heathen some presumption of their truth. " A pagan magistrate," says Gibbon, "who possessed neither leisure nor abilities to discern the almost imperceptible line