A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with the Modern Astronomy. By Thomas Chalmers ..Kirk & Mercein [J. & J. Harper, printers], 1817 - 218 من الصفحات |
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... region where they are utterly abandoned by the light of experience ; and that , in the second instance , the inference they urge from it , is in the face of manifold and undeniable truths , all lying within the safe and accessible field ...
... region where they are utterly abandoned by the light of experience ; and that , in the second instance , the inference they urge from it , is in the face of manifold and undeniable truths , all lying within the safe and accessible field ...
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... regions . Instead of a dark and unpeopled solitude , he sees it crowded with splendour , and filled with the energy of the Divine presence . Creation rises in its im- mensity before him , and the world , with all which it inherits ...
... regions . Instead of a dark and unpeopled solitude , he sees it crowded with splendour , and filled with the energy of the Divine presence . Creation rises in its im- mensity before him , and the world , with all which it inherits ...
الصفحة 23
... , and is transferred in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in the simplicity of her great elements , and it sees the God of nature invested with the high attributes of wisdom and majesty.
... , and is transferred in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in the simplicity of her great elements , and it sees the God of nature invested with the high attributes of wisdom and majesty.
الصفحة 24
... ; but when it takes its flight into the upper regions of the air , it becomes less to the eye , and is seen like a dark spot upon the vault of hea- ven . The same is true of all magnitude . The heavenly bodies appear small to the eye of an.
... ; but when it takes its flight into the upper regions of the air , it becomes less to the eye , and is seen like a dark spot upon the vault of hea- ven . The same is true of all magnitude . The heavenly bodies appear small to the eye of an.
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... colour spreads over its northern regions , as its winter ad- vances , and that on the approach of summer this whiteness is dissipated - giving room to suppose , that the element of water abounds in it , that it rises by evaporation into ...
... colour spreads over its northern regions , as its winter ad- vances , and that on the approach of summer this whiteness is dissipated - giving room to suppose , that the element of water abounds in it , that it rises by evaporation into ...
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الصفحة 273 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon...
الصفحة 270 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
الصفحة 275 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
الصفحة 270 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
الصفحة 150 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
الصفحة 14 - I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
الصفحة 275 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
الصفحة 21 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
الصفحة 112 - The other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
الصفحة 29 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.