Lives of Twelve Good Men ..., Volumen2

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Página 204 - And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Página 214 - March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
Página 336 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also : knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed ; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Página 60 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Página 188 - The nature of the case implies, that the human mind is competent to sit in moral and spiritual judgment on a professed revelation ; and to decide (if the case seem to require it) in the following tone : " This doctrine attributes to God, that which we should all call harsh, cruel, or unjust in Man ; it is therefore intrinsically inadmissible...
Página 190 - Scripture given to particular persons requiring actions which would be immoral and vicious, were it not for such precepts. But it is easy to see, that all these are of such a kind as that the precept changes the whole nature of the case and of the action ; and both constitutes and...
Página 189 - It is not an object of knowledge ; but its notion, as a regulative principle of the mind itself, is more than a mere negation of the conditioned.
Página 17 - The result of this examination I am bound plainly to declare is my own conviction that they do not justly warrant those suspicions of unsoundness to which they have given rise, and which so long as I trusted to selected extracts I myself shared.
Página 189 - The infliction of physical suffering, the permission of moral evil, the adversity of the good, the prosperity of the wicked, the crimes of the guilty involving the misery of the innocent, the tardy appearance and partial distribution of moral and religious knowledge in the world - these are facts which no doubt are reconcilable, we know not how, with the Infinite Goodness of God, but which certainly are not to be explained on the supposition that its sole and sufficient type is to be found in the...
Página 186 - Does there exist in the human mind any direct faculty of religious knowledge by which, in its speculative exercise, we are enabled to decide, independently of all external revelation, what is the true nature of God, and the manner in which he must manifest himself to the world; and by which in its critical exercise we are enabled to decide for or against the claims of any professed revelation, as containing a true or false representation of the Divine nature and attributes ?

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