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Monday, October 13, 2008
Edwards on Christian fortitude
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"Though Christian fortitude appears in withstanding and counteracting the enemies that are without us; yet it much more appears in resi...
When God moves the will
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"just as by moving natural causes He does not prevent their acts being natural, so by moving voluntary causes He does not deprive their...
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Roth via La Guardia on incorruptibility where it matters
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"There's where our imperfect Walter was incorruptible--where it mattered. Walter is too loud, Walter talks too fast, Walter says to...
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Byron on Southey
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"Byron prophesied that Southey's Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem would be read 'when Homer and Virgil are forgotten, but-- not till ...
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Honour all men
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"a Christian is like a little child; a little child is modest before men, and his heart is apt to be possessed with fear and awe among ...
Friday, September 19, 2008
Edwards on the sole "direct, clear, and all-conquering evidence" of "the truth of the great things of the gospel"
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"The gospel of the blessed God does not go abroad a-begging for its evidence. . . ." Jonathan Edwards, The religious affections, ...
Too close for comfort
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. . . what I say to you, I say as one that is a stranger to the story as stranger to the deed. For I would not be far upon the track if I a...
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