The Religion of the Universe: With Consolatory Views of a Future State; and Suggestions on the Most Beneficial Topics of Theological InstructionWilliams and Norgate, 1864 - 236 páginas |
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agency and perfections anthropomorphise astronomy become believe benefit benevolence better character church Church of England circumstances consciousness consists in knowing constitution continually creatures creeds Deism Deity Deum scire devotional Divine agency dogmatisms duty earth effects elevate endless enjoyment Eternal evanescent evidence excite exercise existence faculties favour feeling finite formularies furnish future globe happiness heart Hence higher highest hope hope and fear human mind human race idolatry imperfect impress improvement inculcated individual infinite wisdom intel intellectual advancement interest knowledge labour laws less light manifestations ment mental moral constitution moral government Natural Theology nature ness never notions object omniscience Pantheism perpetually increasing phenomena physical pleasurable practice prayers present principle produced progressive proofs rational reason religion consists religionists religious revelations ROBERT FELLOWES scheme scrupulosities seems sentiment social supernatural superstition suppose tendency things tion tism true truth vice and misery vidual virtue whole worship
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Página 85 - I say, that if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author.
Página xxxi - For Wisdom is more moving than any motion : she passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness. For she is the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty : therefore can no defiled thing fall into her.
Página xxxi - For she is. the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His goodness.
Página 85 - ... be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of our minds, is to have laid the foundation of every thing which is religious.
Página 109 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página iv - Boden suchen sollen, ehe wir nach so entfernten Quellen wandeln. Die Zeit des bloß historischen Glaubens ist vorbei, wenn die Möglichkeit unmittelbarer Erkenntnis gegeben ist. Wir haben eine ältere Offenbarung als jede geschriebene, die Natur.
Página 146 - ... all his purposes, invariable in all his schemes, and immutable in all his determinations. What he wills, he wills once and for ever. There is no variableness nor even shadow of turning in him. To pray to him, therefore, to alter his will, or change his purpose, is at once a mark of folly and impiety. To ask the INFINITE to do what we wish, rather than what he intends, is to doubt whether he knows as well as we do ourselves. It is self-evident that to offer petitions to the Divine Being with the...
Página 149 - Neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. . . . God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
Página 59 - The distance of a thunder-storm and its consequent danger can easily be estimated. As light travels at the rate of 192,000 miles in a second of time, its effects may be considered as instantaneous within any moderate distance. Sound is transmitted at the rate of only 1142 feet in a second.
Página 85 - The world thenceforth becomes a temple, and life itself one continued act of adoration. The change is no less than this, that, whereas formerly God was seldom in our thoughts, we can now scarcely look upon any thing without perceiving its relation to him.