 | Thomas Gordon - 1743 - 392 pages
...known to Men, it is agreeable to his Goodnefs to make it evident i when he would not, it is agreeable agreeable to his Wifdom to make it impenetrable. Scripture...Spirit has made undeniably .clear and manifeft, all choTe Precepts that injoki Faith and Obedience, which are the great Points of Religion ; and weak Men... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...Burke, it is to be found nowhere. Hazlitt. SCRIPTURE was not given to make work for interpreters, nor lo teach men how to doubt, but how to live. The Holy Spirit has made undeniably clear and manifest all those precepts, (hat enjoin faith and obedience, which are the great points of religion.... | |
 | James Abbott - Episcopacy - 1833 - 398 pages
...it is agreeable to his goodness to make it evident; when he would not, it is agreeable to his wisdom to make it impenetrable. Scripture was not given to...live. The Holy Spirit has made undeniably clear and manifest all those precepts that enjoin faith and obedience, which are the great points of religion.... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1838 - 540 pages
...sectarians — they have preferred right thinking to right living. But as one of your country authors says, "Scripture was not given to make work for interpreters, nor to teach men how to doubt, but how to live" Sectarians have attended to the head and neglected the heart; but as the poet says, "If wrong our hearts,... | |
 | Independent Whig, Andrew SCOTT (Member of the Merchant Company, Edinburgh.) - 1845 - 420 pages
...it is agreeable to his goodness to make it evident; when he would not, it is agreeable to his wisdom to make it impenetrable. Scripture was not given to...live. The Holy Spirit has made undeniably clear and manifest, all those precepts that enjoin faith and obedience, which are the great points of religion... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...that which the author meant when he wrote it. Selden. SCRIPTURES, WHY GIVEN. — The Scriptures were not given to make work for interpreters, nor to teach...live. The Holy Spirit has made undeniably clear and manifest all those precepts that enjoin faith and obedience, which are the great points of religion,... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 712 pages
...ever in perfect fullness. — Tom Brown's School Pays. SCRIPTURES, WHY GIVEN. — The Scriptures were not given to make work for interpreters, nor to teach men how to doubt, but how to live. The Holy Spiritjhas made undeniably clear and manifest all those precepts that enjoin faith and obedience, which... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 404 pages
...and ever in perfect fullness.—Tom Brown's School Days. SCRIPTURES, WHY GIVEN.—The Scriptures were not given to make work for interpreters, nor to teach men how to doubt, but how to live. The Holy Spiritjhas made undeniably clear and manifest all those precepts that enjoin faith and obedience, which... | |
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... to make it impenetrable. Scripture was not given to make work for interpreters; nor to teach men how to doubt, but how to live. The Holy Spirit has made undeniably clear and manifest, all those precepts that enjoin faith and obedience, which are the... 