The Works of William E. Channing, D. D.J. Munroe, 1841 |
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Seite 307 - God. Another passage much relied on is the declaration of Paul, that " at the name of Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue acknowledge him Lord." Read the whole text : " God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should
Seite 77 - were a crime ; who shrink from the seekers after truth as from infection : who deny all virtue, which does not wear the livery of their own sect; who, surrendering to others their best powers, receive unresistingly a teaching which wars against reason and conscience ; and who think it a merit to impose on such as live
Seite 7 - This unlabored manner of expressing great thoughts is particularly worthy of attention. You never hear from Jesus that swelling, pompous, ostentatious language, which almost necessarily springs from an attempt to sustain a character above our powers. He talks of his glories us one to whom they were familiar,
Seite 170 - for speculation or amusement. Its happiness is to be realized only through our own struggles with ourselves, only through our own reaching forward to new virtue and piety. To be joined with Christ in Heaven, we must be joined with him now in spirit, in the conquest of temptation, in charity and well-doing,
Seite 155 - also want concord or harmony with all things around it. Suppose this to exist, and the whole creation which now amuses. may become an instrument of suffering, fixing the soul with a more harrowing consciousness on itself. You know that even now, in consequence of certain
Seite 170 - Immortality should begin here. The seed is now to be sown, which is to expand for ever. " Be not weary then in welldoing ; for in due time we shall reap, if we faint not.
Seite 139 - Humanity has already, in not a few instances, borne conspicuously the likeness of Christ and God. The sun grows dim, the grandeur of outward nature shrinks, when compared with the spiritual energy of men, who, in the cause of truth, of God, of charity, have spurned all bribes of ease, pleasure, renown, and
Seite 141 - apprehend, is to many obscure, or not sufficiently plain. It is a word seldom used in common life. It belongs to theology and the pulpit. By not a few people, sin is supposed to be a property of our nature, born with us ; and we sometimes hear of the child as being
Seite 283 - among the most sacred rights of man. Are they morally fallen and lost? They should still learn, in our unaffected concern, the worth of the fallen soul, and learn that nothing seems to us so fearful as its degradation. This moral, spiritual interest in the poor, we should express and make effectual, by approaching
Seite 7 - one to whom they were familiar, and of his intimacy and oneness with God, as simply as a child speaks of his connexion with his parents. He speaks of saving and judging the world, of drawing all men to himself,