Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit EloquenceW. Wells and T. B. Wait & Company, 1810 - 333 pages Lectures composed for the students of divinity in Marischal college and first delivered in 1772 and 1773. |
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... mind will brook no delay . They cannot bear to doubt or hesitate . Suspense in judging is to them more in- sufferable , than the manifest hazard of judging wrong . " He adds a little after , " In questions , which have appeared to me ...
... mind will brook no delay . They cannot bear to doubt or hesitate . Suspense in judging is to them more in- sufferable , than the manifest hazard of judging wrong . " He adds a little after , " In questions , which have appeared to me ...
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... mind derives from the per- ception of truth , the properest plan of teaching must be very different from that which ought to be adopted , when the end is practice . And as this last admits a subdivision ( for there may be practical ends ...
... mind derives from the per- ception of truth , the properest plan of teaching must be very different from that which ought to be adopted , when the end is practice . And as this last admits a subdivision ( for there may be practical ends ...
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... mind , biassing it in favour of a particular set of opinions , infusing pre- judices against what does not perfectly tally with a system perhaps too hastily adopted , and fomenting a spirit of dogmatism whereby we are led to pronounce ...
... mind , biassing it in favour of a particular set of opinions , infusing pre- judices against what does not perfectly tally with a system perhaps too hastily adopted , and fomenting a spirit of dogmatism whereby we are led to pronounce ...
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... mind of the systematic student , is a lamentable truth , which expe- rience but too clearly evinces . On inquiry , however , it will generally be found to have arisen not so much from the study itself , of which it is by no means a ...
... mind of the systematic student , is a lamentable truth , which expe- rience but too clearly evinces . On inquiry , however , it will generally be found to have arisen not so much from the study itself , of which it is by no means a ...
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... mind I shall only say , that far from being an indication of vigour , it is a sure indication of debility in the intellectual powers . A second consideration is , that many questions will be found to have been agitated among theologians ...
... mind I shall only say , that far from being an indication of vigour , it is a sure indication of debility in the intellectual powers . A second consideration is , that many questions will be found to have been agitated among theologians ...
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