The Christian Examiner, Volume 73Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1862 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... human mediator , such as he had always relied on before . Then he found that this reliance on human mediators had taught him to feel , not devotion towards God , but terror . These mediators between him and God had kept him away from ...
... human mediator , such as he had always relied on before . Then he found that this reliance on human mediators had taught him to feel , not devotion towards God , but terror . These mediators between him and God had kept him away from ...
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... human reason from the heaviest burden he found laid upon it , and humanity gained by the change of authority . He did not originate the idea of the infallibility of the Bible , but he de- stroyed that of fathers , schoolmen , and popes ...
... human reason from the heaviest burden he found laid upon it , and humanity gained by the change of authority . He did not originate the idea of the infallibility of the Bible , but he de- stroyed that of fathers , schoolmen , and popes ...
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... human facul- ties independently of the fossilized or stereotyped creeds and formulas inherited from the past . Surely , men of devout and believing minds , trained by the advanced science and philosophy of this age , must have something ...
... human facul- ties independently of the fossilized or stereotyped creeds and formulas inherited from the past . Surely , men of devout and believing minds , trained by the advanced science and philosophy of this age , must have something ...
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... human race ; they discharged themselves on Jesus only . " Such reasoning as an acute and earnest believer can offer for this view is given by the writer , but his aim was hopeless at the start . The other contents and contributors to ...
... human race ; they discharged themselves on Jesus only . " Such reasoning as an acute and earnest believer can offer for this view is given by the writer , but his aim was hopeless at the start . The other contents and contributors to ...
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... human powers , and so to the risk of error . But it is undeni- able that some of the contents of the old creed are based upon , and find their only support in , some of these uncertain histor- ical and scientific elements of Scripture ...
... human powers , and so to the risk of error . But it is undeni- able that some of the contents of the old creed are based upon , and find their only support in , some of these uncertain histor- ical and scientific elements of Scripture ...
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Page 432 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 426 - The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing ; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting ? And for that riches where is my deserving? The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting, And so my patent back again is swerving. Thyself thou...
Page 210 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 414 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. Ah ! yet...
Page 306 - THE LATEST DECALOGUE THOU shalt have one God only, who Would be at the expense of two? No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency: Swear not at all ; for, for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse : At Church on Sunday to attend Will serve to keep the world thy friend : Honour thy parents; that is, all From whom advancement may befall: Thou shalt not kill ; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive...
Page 423 - I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu ; Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be, or your affairs suppose...
Page 435 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 429 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding .pale streams with heavenly alchemy...
Page 218 - When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts ; Dash him to pieces ! . Cas.
Page 209 - If thou survive my well-contented day, When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover, And shalt by fortune once more re-survey These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover, Compare them with the bettering of the time, And though they be outstripp'd by every pen, Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme, Exceeded by the height of happier men.