... ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the... A History of the English Puritans - Trang 493bởi William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 496 trangXem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
| Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 trang
...them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects' substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt of earthly... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 trang
...them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| 1835 - 932 trang
...them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| 1836 - 332 trang
...them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 trang
...them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 trang
...the great end of existence. 2. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 trang
...them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 trang
...them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 trang
...catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face...distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the... | |
| J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 trang
...them the great end of existence. They i ejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
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