 | William Ellery Channing - 1875 - 948 sayfa
...our liablcncss to this delusion binds us to judge calmly, cautiously, and in the fear of God. But if, after a deliberate and impartial use of our best faculties,...all subsequent ones must accord with it, and are, in f.'.ct, intended to blend with and brighten it. My hearers, as you value Christianity, never speak... | |
 | 1880 - 264 sayfa
...all that follows. " It is growing light and must be expounded by every age for itself." He says, " I am surer that my rational nature is from God than that any book is the expression of His will." It is of the very highest importance that in honouring the memory of this... | |
 | Russell Nevins Bellows - 1881 - 548 sayfa
...all that follows. " It is growing light, and must be expounded by every age for itself." He says, " I am surer that my rational nature is from God than that any book is the expression of his will." It is of the very highest importance that in honoring the memory of this... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1889 - 240 sayfa
...when reason and Scripture were at variance, they must follow the written word. But Channing said, " I am surer that my rational nature is from God than that any book is the expression of his will"; and Channing's thought has more and more prevailed. Meantime, the Unitarian... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1890 - 1074 sayfa
...our liableness to this delusion binds us to judge calmly, cautiously, and in the fear of God. But if, after a deliberate and impartial use of our best faculties,...with it, and are. in fact, intended to blend with ;md brighten it. My hearers, as you value Christianity, never speak of it as in any tiling opposed... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1894 - 1080 sayfa
...our liableness to this delusion binds us to judge calmly, cautiously, and in the fear of God. But if, after a deliberate and impartial use of our best faculties,...from God than | that any book is an expression of his I will. This light in my own breast is his primary revelation, and all subsequent ones must accord... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1894 - 276 sayfa
...is, and it ought not to be denied, that our ultimate reliance is, and must be, on our own reason : I am surer that my rational nature is from God than that any book is an expression of his will," he said that in which all our later developments were folded like the oak within the acorn's cup. But... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1900 - 460 sayfa
...itself or clash with great principles which we cannot question, we ought not to hesitate in withholding from it our belief. I am surer that, my rational nature is from God than that any bookl is the expression of his will." Here was a Magna j) Charta which Parker's ultimate career wrote... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1903 - 416 sayfa
...binds us to judge calmly, cautiously, and in the fear of God. But if, after a deliberate and impartia. use of our best faculties, a professed revelation...any book is an expression of his will. This light m my own breast is his primary revelation, and all subsequent ones must accord with it, and are in... | |
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But if, after a deliberate and impartial use of our best faculties, a professed revelation seems to us plainly to disagree with itself or to clash with great principles which we cannot question, we ought not to hesitate to withhold from it our belief.... 
