Three Discourses Preached Before the Congregational Society in Watertown: Two, Upon Leaving the Old Meeting-house : One, at the Dedication of the NewFolsom, Wells, and Thurston, 1836 - 79 sider |
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Side 21
... bring before my imagination the rude and simple building , where our predecessors worshipped their God two centuries ago , and compare it with that beautiful edifice , which we hope in a few days to dedicate to the service of reli- gion ...
... bring before my imagination the rude and simple building , where our predecessors worshipped their God two centuries ago , and compare it with that beautiful edifice , which we hope in a few days to dedicate to the service of reli- gion ...
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... brings " life and immortality to light . " If we say only , with the ancient proverb , " Man is a bubble , " we make but a miserably defective , and therefore an untrue , statement . Man not only has a soul , but is a soul ; and nothing ...
... brings " life and immortality to light . " If we say only , with the ancient proverb , " Man is a bubble , " we make but a miserably defective , and therefore an untrue , statement . Man not only has a soul , but is a soul ; and nothing ...
Side 31
... bring our holiest affections to divine truth , as the soul's life , and as the source of wisdom unto salvation . What are the other objects we pursue , the other purposes for which we live , compared with these ? Our attendance in the ...
... bring our holiest affections to divine truth , as the soul's life , and as the source of wisdom unto salvation . What are the other objects we pursue , the other purposes for which we live , compared with these ? Our attendance in the ...
Side 32
... bring our minds fairly to consider the subject at all ? Has it really been to us a light and trivial thing , whatever outward decorum we may have observed respecting it ? Have the ex- cuses , which have prevailed with us to desert the ...
... bring our minds fairly to consider the subject at all ? Has it really been to us a light and trivial thing , whatever outward decorum we may have observed respecting it ? Have the ex- cuses , which have prevailed with us to desert the ...
Side 33
... bringing our bodies to the house of God , and leav- ing our affections somewhere else ? Have we felt , that , in the presence of God , we stand in all the nakedness of our real thoughts and feelings ; and that no lurking insincerity ...
... bringing our bodies to the house of God , and leav- ing our affections somewhere else ? Have we felt , that , in the presence of God , we stand in all the nakedness of our real thoughts and feelings ; and that no lurking insincerity ...
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Side 61 - It is a partnership in all science -, a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership can not be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Side 78 - Jesus, whom having not seen we love ; in whom, though now we see him not, yet believing, we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls,
Side 17 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Side 52 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
Side 63 - Superstition is the religion of feeble minds; and they must be tolerated in an intermixture of it, in some trifling or some enthusiastic shape or other, else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest.
Side 61 - As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical...
Side 50 - Every moment of our lives, we breathe, stand, or move in the temple of the Most High; for the whole universe is that temple. Wherever we go, the testimony to his power, the impress of his hand, are there. Ask of the bright worlds around us, as they roll in the everlasting harmony of their circles; and they shall tell you of Him, whose power launched them on their courses. Ask of the mountains, that lift their heads among and above the clouds; and the bleak summit of one shall seem to call aloud to...