... conduct must be variable and undecided. As all sciences have their axioms, or first principles, from which all their various branches and parts are deduced, so it is scarcely to be supposed that religion is so vague and uncertain a thing, as to be... Self-education; or, The value of mental culture - Page 144by William Robinson (author of Self-education.) - 1845Full view - About this book
| 1834 - 614 pages
...so vague and uncertain a thing, as to be any thing or nothing, just as the prejudices and humours, the customs and habits, of men would make it." "A...characterized by a due proportion of reflection and feeling. It cannot indeed be decided what amount of scriptural knowledge is necessary to conversion in any given... | |
| William Buell Sprague - 1832 - 552 pages
...proportion that it is sustained by scriptural or unscriptural instrumentality. 2. A genuine revival is characterized by a due proportion of reflection...feeling. I will not undertake to decide what amount of scriptural knowledge is necessary to conversion in any given case, or to question the fact that men... | |
| 1833 - 618 pages
...scriptural revivals. Of the latter, we quote the following : — "A genuine revival is characterized by a dm proportion of reflection and feeling. " I will not undertake to decide what amount of scriptural knowledge is necessary to conversion in any given case, or to question the fact that men... | |
| 1834 - 604 pages
...so vague and uncertain a thing, as to be any thing or nothing, just as the prejudices and humours, the customs and habits, of men would make it." " A...characterized by a due proportion of reflection and feeling. It cannot indeed be decided what amount of scriptural knowledge is necessary to conversion in any given... | |
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