| Thomas Dick - 1836 - 306 pages
...beautiful. Indisputably, the firm believers in the Gospel have a great advantage over all others — for this simple reason, that if true, they will have...without subsequent disappointment, since (at the worst of them) " out of nothing, nothing can arise," not even sorrow. But a man's creed does not depend upon... | |
| the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...acknowledgment : — " Indisputably the firm believers in the Gospel have a great advantage over all others — for this simple reason, that, if true, they will have...assistance of an exalted hope through life, without any subsequent disappointment, since (at the worst for them) ' out of nothing, nothing can arise,'... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 pages
...beautiful. Indisputably, ill'.- firm l* l icvers in the gospel have a great advantage over all others — for this simple reason, that if true, they will have...but with the infidel in his eternal sleep, having liad the assistance of an exalted hop'- through life, without subséquent disappointment, since (at... | |
| 1836 - 712 pages
...: — * Indisputably, the firm believers in the Gospel have a great achv.nt'ie/e over nil 'others, for this simple reason, that if true, they will have...their reward hereafter, and if there be no hereafter, '.her can be but with the infidel in bis eternal sleep, having had the assistance of an exalted hope... | |
| John Sheppard - 1838 - 368 pages
...beautiful. Indisputably, the firm believers in the gospel have a great advantage over all others, — for this simple reason, that if true, they will have...out of nothing, nothing can arise," not even sorrow, — But a man's creed does not depend upon himself: who can say, I will believe, — this, — that,... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1838 - 690 pages
...beautiful. Indisputably, the firm believers in the gospel have a great advantage over all others — for this simple reason, that if true, they will have their reward heroailer ; and if there be no hereafter, they can be but with the infidel in his eternal sleep, having... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 pages
...LORD BVRON. "Indisputably, the firm believers in the Gospel have a great advantage over all others, for this simple reason, that if true, they will have...of an exalted hope through life, without subsequent disappointment."—"Do me the justice to suppose that 'video meliora proboqur.,' 1 however the 'deteriora... | |
| London city mission - 1840 - 620 pages
...Frome, *—" Indisputably, the firm believers in the gospel have a great advantage over all others, for this simple reason, that if true they will have...out of nothing, nothing can arise, not even sorrow." Rather give me my existence among slaves, and chain me daily to the gang, immure me in a dungeon, confiscate... | |
| Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - 386 pages
...confession. " Indisputably, the firm believers in the gospel have a great advantage over all others — for this simple reason, that, if true, they will have...of nothing, nothing can arise,' not even sorrow." I do not pretend, sir, that this is evidence of the truth of religion. I speak now merely of its consolations.... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 pages
...beautiful. Indisputably, the firm believers in the Gospel have a great advantage over all others — for this simple reason, that if true, they will have their reward hercnfter ; and if there be no hereafter, they can be but with the infidel in his eternal sleep, having... | |
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