 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 Seiten
...was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. 3. The difference between the greatest... | |
 | 1848 - 792 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt of earthly distinctions. The difference... | |
 | 1848 - 786 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt of earthly distinctions. The difference... | |
 | 1848 - 780 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious ^ homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt of earthly distinctions. The difference... | |
 | 1849 - 606 Seiten
...rejected with contempt, the ceremonious homage, which other sects substituted for the worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity,...brightness, and to commune with him face to face." " People who saw nothing of the godly, but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their... | |
 | 1856 - 666 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt... | |
 | 1849 - 818 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, 'hoy aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 Seiten
...perfection of style : for sustained and unimpassioned accuracy: for persuasive but equable diction. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...brightness, and to commune with him face to face. In the midst of all this peace, this innocence, and this tranquillity, this jeast of the mind, this pure... | |
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Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted... 
