| 1831 - 1008 páginas
...drama, then, ends well— happity — and some persons may object to it on that score, who wish always " to assert eternal Providence, and justify the ways of God to man.'^ But in the first place, remember that it is a Greek tragedy, and what Milton says of Fate. jEschylus... | |
| 1824 - 604 páginas
...who think every thing formidable which they cannot master. Of this volume, the evident tendency is, " To assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man." This is a station which it fills in a manner highly creditable to the talents of the writers, and,... | |
| 1823 - 762 páginas
...or not, the very reverse of that which Milton proposes as the theme and purpose of his divine poem ; to . " assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man." This impious tendency, perhaps, is not so offensively prominent in his " Heaven and Earth," as in some... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1825 - 468 páginas
...into which the moral state of mankind leads us; and, as far as we are enabled by that feeble help, to assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man. But any such inquiry cannot fail to terminate in a feeling of just gratitude, that we, who have fallen... | |
| John Young (M.A.) - 1833 - 328 páginas
...will exemplify the statement I have made, and serve to act as a beacon to others, while it tends — To assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to man.' " Having assured him he would oblige me by the statement, he thus proceeded : — " ' The call of friendship... | |
| John Landseer - 1834 - 534 páginas
...refining upon the human countenance also, enable him to reach " the height of his great argument; Or to assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man." He seems to have been convinced that the imitation of the forms of human nature alone, would not carry... | |
| John Alonzo Clark - 1836 - 412 páginas
...reader's attention to the sorrows and sad reverses which mark the history of this poor paralytic, is " To assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man." The hope is cherished lhat these pages will convey light and comfort to some sorrowing heart — that... | |
| 1837 - 428 páginas
...feeling of a brother of old, openly to testify, " Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right !" To assert eternal providence, and justify the ways of God to man, is the employ of the new creation ; "all his ways are right." His character unimpeachable in all he... | |
| 1838 - 420 páginas
...trial of piety, and that they lead in the end to higher good than would otherwise be obtained, and thus to assert eternal providence, and justify the ways of God to man. And while he enforces the duty of vOL. XXIII. 3D s. vOL. v. NO. I. 5 entire submission, he also plainly... | |
| T. H. Hudson - 1839 - 338 páginas
..."evil," and the ends for which it was permitted to exist ! Arrogant man ! be satisfied ! we know enough to " Assert eternal providence And justify the ways of God to man." The scriptures declare, 4. The depravity of man to be inherent and universal. All are sinful, and "... | |
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