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... truth take root and grow we know not how . But in the New Church we well know that the tendency of our doctrines , and the purpose of all our teaching , is to develop in the mind the graces of Christian meekness and love , and to ...
... truth take root and grow we know not how . But in the New Church we well know that the tendency of our doctrines , and the purpose of all our teaching , is to develop in the mind the graces of Christian meekness and love , and to ...
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... truth , leads to the merest vagaries , and often to the wildest extravagances of the professedly religious life . Religion is builded on revelation ; and revelation is to be wisely interpreted . One of the greatest needs of the age is ...
... truth , leads to the merest vagaries , and often to the wildest extravagances of the professedly religious life . Religion is builded on revelation ; and revelation is to be wisely interpreted . One of the greatest needs of the age is ...
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... truth for his own exclusive advantage . Truth is light , and the value of light is in its diffusion . Hid under a bushel , it confers no advantage upon the inhabitants of the house . Extinguished in the darkness of indifference , and ...
... truth for his own exclusive advantage . Truth is light , and the value of light is in its diffusion . Hid under a bushel , it confers no advantage upon the inhabitants of the house . Extinguished in the darkness of indifference , and ...
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... truth . Because He is Love , we love ; and because He is Love in its conjugial union , there is a march of the two counter- parts , each bent on embracing the other . To ... truth the form ; Truth 8 A Poem of Conjugial Love .. Poetry.
... truth . Because He is Love , we love ; and because He is Love in its conjugial union , there is a march of the two counter- parts , each bent on embracing the other . To ... truth the form ; Truth 8 A Poem of Conjugial Love .. Poetry.
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New Church gen. confer. For love is substance , truth the form ; Truth without love were less than nought , But blindest love is sweet and warm , And full of truth not shaped by thought . Again , see how this pure love of woman is linked ...
New Church gen. confer. For love is substance , truth the form ; Truth without love were less than nought , But blindest love is sweet and warm , And full of truth not shaped by thought . Again , see how this pure love of woman is linked ...
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Page 48 - And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Page 408 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Page 188 - IN the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims ; each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts ; the whole earth is full of his glory.
Page 426 - When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 226 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. 'Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 496 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 213 - If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them ; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Page 224 - Through wood and stream and field and hill and Ocean A quickening life from the Earth's heart has burst As it has ever done, with change and motion, From the great morning of the world when first God dawned on Chaos...
Page 427 - What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 222 - Didactic poetry is my abhorrence ; nothing can be equally well expressed in prose that is not tedious and supererogatory in verse. My purpose has hitherto been simply to familiarize the highly refined imagination of the more select classes of poetical readers with beautiful idealisms of moral excellence ; aware that until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples...