This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... QUESTIONS AGAIN. O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me. -- Pi. rmrxix. i. "Call the Lord thy sure salvation, Rest beneath the Almighty's shade." IDO not feel at all content to leave one of your remarks as I have left it: " Sometimes you have written as if I was to understandingly believe." I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... QUESTIONS AGAIN. O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me. -- Pi. rmrxix. i. "Call the Lord thy sure salvation, Rest beneath the Almighty's shade." IDO not feel at all content to leave one of your remarks as I have left it: " Sometimes you have written as if I was to understandingly believe." I should be sorry if I thought I had ever called upon you to believe, in any other way than understandingly, anything within the range of your understanding. Let us look to this. Both you and I clearly apprehend many truths which we might be said to understand, but which we certainly do not comprehend. Thus, I apprehend the fact of God's existence, and, in a limited way, I understand it; but only in a limited way. One of the Creator's own questions illustrates this: "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" The idea of entirely including and containing the whole, runs through this passage, as my mind includes and contains the fact that two and two are four; as I entirely comprehend that vinegar and molasses are very unlike; and wherein they are unlike, that is, as respects sweet and sour. God is a spirit: something of that proposition you can believe understandingl y; more of it you can apprehend as reasonable, probable, or even true; while much remains of which you have no comprehension. We understand much in the conduct of certain persons, when we do not comprehend the motives which govern their conduct. You can understand that God wishes you to do this and that; you can understanding!}' believe that in obeying Him you will be blessed, if you stop short DEGREESbf demanding that you...
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