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tomanismadeas created after God's Image, and finally perfect in Christ, in so much as He is the express Image of God's Person. And these three do not stand loosely side by side, butform,ifwe may sayso,a climbing pyramid. surface, it a ...
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from nature, not that we might interpret it in a material sense, but rather that we might weave into our spiritual life. In this respect also the erring soul frequently impoverishes itself. It has been learned by heart, and in general it is agreed, that Divine attributes exhibit themselves in the ...
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vegetable and animal-world, in the splendor of the sea, in the roar of the hurricane, sometimes even in the rolling of his thunder. In all this, is, and lives, the God Whom we worship. In the throbbings of the life of nature throbs his ownDivine life. Whatever moves in creation, flows thro ...
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how God as his good shepherd goes before him in the waj', hears the sound of God's rod and staff on the ground, and is comforted thereby. All this is not for the sake of giving us a poetic, vivid view of nature. Heathen poets have done this. In nature also everything is for the sake of religion, ...
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is not invisible, and we are definitely told that once we shall see God face to shall know him, even as we are known. face. Intellectual knowledge, and even spiritual know-Eternal BeingWeledge clear,isnot the highest.immediatesight.The ...
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very life of God, and clearly sees in it all, the Divinity of Omnipotence, understands the glory of the Invisible.''ANDGod veilofisTHE SECOND UNTO IT."invisible.nature.HeISLIKEhides himself behind theBut the ...
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wisdom has been christened with the nameinvolution and new evangel.Darwmisof called the prophet of thisThis whole system is nothing more than miatuation of unbelieving thought. Butself-there that the whole creation seems to have been built up as a ...
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He comes a second time and shows his image in man, the portrait of himself. Not in one individual. This is impossible. But in man, as in the course of centuries, he was bqrn, has lived and has died by the millions. Among these millions there was the hyssop and the cedar. In these occasional insta ...
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humannature,andmagnilicent revelareconciles us again is the picture gallery of history', of the heroes in common life and of the heroes of faith, as the Apostle declares: (Heb. 12) "we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses," wherefore we should lay aside ever ...
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created after the purifies this love. the love for God.Image of God. But the Spirit Love for man must be hke There must be no diĀ£ferencebetween these two, or else the love for man will detract from the love for God in the heart. Thus it becomes more and more a process of distinction ...