 ... 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
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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... | |
 | John Philip - 1871 - 330 trang
...whom Macaulay so eloquently speaks, as men " who were deeply read in the oracles of God," and "who, instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, aspired to gaze full on His intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to face." Truly it... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 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...occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring vail, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 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... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 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 [essays]) - 1874 - 264 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 of catching occasional glimpses of the IJeity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 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...Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze lull on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt... | |
 | 1875 - 324 trang
...contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. 2. Instead of 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 to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 trang
...contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Iustead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze lull on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt... | |
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