Saturday, February 25, 2012

Edwards on the immediacy of the "divine and supernatural light"

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     "II. I proceed now to the second thing proposed, viz. to show how this light is immediately given by God, and not obtained by natu...

"It is not rational to suppose, if there be any such excellency in divine things, that wicked men should see it."

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"It is not rational to suppose, if there be any such excellency in divine things, that wicked men should see it. 'Tis not rational ...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Sit anima mea cum Westleio

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"We hope nothing then, we fear every thing, from a religious movement, which nevertheless in its rise excites our sympathy, and of whi...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Iron, then blood

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"Nicht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden . . . sondern durch Eisen und Blut".  ...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Grace

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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the concert and pantomime, And gr...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

"Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church"

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"We have had great disputes how the church ought to be regulated; and indeed the subject of these disputes was of great importance: but...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Wilcox on Murray on "the modern horror of being thought 'judgmental'"

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     "There are at least two ways to close this cultural divide and renew the cultural foundations of the American experiment. First, ...