The New Christian's Magazine: Being an Universal Repository of Divine Knowledge, Volume 2

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Page 214 - Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
Page 305 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 304 - It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into .another, or to withdraw himself from any thing he has created, or from any part of that space which is diffused and spread abroad to infinity.
Page 304 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Page 310 - Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Page 263 - We may speak much, and yet come short : wherefore in sum he is all. How shall we be able to magnify him ? for he is great above all his works; The Lord is terrible and very great ; and marvellous in his power.
Page 262 - If we examine the idea we have of the incomprehensible Supreme Being, we shall find that we come by it the same way, and that the complex ideas we have both of God and separate spirits are made up of the simple ideas we receive from reflection...
Page 72 - I will speak of all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee : yea, my songs will I make of thy Name, O thou most Highest. 3 While mine enemies are driven back : they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
Page 263 - And when you exalt him, put forth all your strength, and be not weary; for you can never go far enough. Who hath seen him, that he might tell us? and who can magnify him as he is? There are yet hid greater things than these be, for we have seen but a few of his works.
Page 262 - ... ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration, of knowledge and power, of pleasure and happiness, and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have, than to be without ; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the Supreme Being, we enlarge every one of these with our idea of infinity ; and so putting them together, make our complex idea of God.

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