 ... susceptible of mental sufferings, to which ruder ages are strangers; and these Christianity is fitted to assuage. Imagination and intellect become more restless ; and Christianity brings them tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the...  Discourse on the Evidences of Revealed Religion - Page 31de William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 38 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1821 - 364 pages
...tranquillity bj the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages...feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future and distant ages; and when we consider among whom our religion sprung,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 580 pages
...tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages...feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future and distant ages; and when we consider among whom our religion sprung,... | |
 | 1823 - 582 pages
...tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages of society than that in which it was introducedj to' wants of human nature not then developed, seems to me very striking. The religion bears... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1824 - 298 pages
...tranquillity, by the " eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and " unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This " fitness of our religion to more advanced stages...and had " power to provide for its progress. This fea" ture of Christianity is of the nature of prophe" cy. It is an anticipation of future and distant... | |
 | 1825 - 830 pages
...tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages...wants of human nature not then developed, seems to me vc.y striking. The religion bears the marks of having come from a Being who perfectly understood the... | |
 | 1825 - 634 pages
...tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn aud unbounded prospects which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages...of society than that in which it was introduced, to wanu of human nature not then developed, seems to me very striking. The religion bears the marks of... | |
 | Henry Ware, American Unitarian Association - 1827 - 512 pages
...tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, whicb it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages...feature of christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future and distant ages ; and when we consider among whom our religion sprung,... | |
 | 1828 - 318 pages
...tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages...feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future and distant ages ; and when we consider among whom our religion sprung,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 622 pages
...tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages...feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future and distant ages ; and when we consider among whom our religion sprung,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 pages
...tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages...feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future and distant ages ; and when we consider among whom our religion sprung,... | |
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