… 57^ Old Price's Remains. majority in number, even if they did not always include the aristocracy of talent, in Christendom. The compilers then, with…
… 57^ Old Price's Remains. majority in number, even if they did not always include the aristocracy of talent, in Christendom. The compilers then, with this general impression, could never use the term "Bible" or " Holy Scriptures," in any other sense than as a direct plenary and verbal communication from God to man, exactly equivalent in all its parts, to the voices uttered from Heaven, or the words of the ten command¬ ments written…
… Graviora. 577 In fine, have I a single reason for believing implicitly any one doctrine or fact, great or small, as from God, ex¬…
… Graviora. 577 In fine, have I a single reason for believing implicitly any one doctrine or fact, great or small, as from God, ex¬ cepting those repeated statements in that most " credible and authentic of all books," which, if they claim a divine origin at all* do so for the Holy Scriptures as a whole, without any distinction of doctrinal and historical, essen¬ tial and non-essential! I confess / have none; and, though…
… 578 Old Prices Remains. He is said to have said, which latter may really, with more propriety, be referred to Milton, Klopstock, &c., or…
… 578 Old Prices Remains. He is said to have said, which latter may really, with more propriety, be referred to Milton, Klopstock, &c., or again to others who, though not poets, have prosed on Scripture themes in a style highly poetical and with as much of reason as of rhyme, and no more. Both learned and unlearned, however, have fallen into the very pardonable error of mistaking the scope and drift of certain passages;…
… Graviora. 579 He used to advise us to consider Geology as an impertinent little hussy if she dared, in comparative infancy, to compete with…
… Graviora. 579 He used to advise us to consider Geology as an impertinent little hussy if she dared, in comparative infancy, to compete with the oldest and best established records in the world: to go on observing, collecting, and booking facts, making very sure that they were facts first; to look very keenly after " negative facts," such as the supposed absence of certain forms from certain strata, &c.; to theorize sparingly, and never…
… 580 Old Prices Remains. (poor souls!) such better things against their unoffending persons without a shadow of evidence ! If not cured, liberasti animam…
… 580 Old Prices Remains. (poor souls!) such better things against their unoffending persons without a shadow of evidence ! If not cured, liberasti animam tuam ; you will have done, your part Thank God and Take Courage. Look back on all your past troubles, and you will find, I think, that by far the greater part of them may be classed under two heads. I. Those into which you were brought by not "thanking…
… Graviora. 58 * rueful countenance, with your knees feeble and your hands hanging down?—(Heb. xii. 12.) O thank God that the question is not…
… Graviora. 58 * rueful countenance, with your knees feeble and your hands hanging down?—(Heb. xii. 12.) O thank God that the question is not who are you f but what is He t. and take courage. Again, thank God and take,, courage, because, since I first bid you be of good cheer, you have been the subject of countless mercies, or you would not be reading these lines. Did you deserve those mercies? "…
… 582 Old Prices Remains. ter at home, as that which arises for the truth's sake ? Query whether a drunkard or libertine in a…
… 582 Old Prices Remains. ter at home, as that which arises for the truth's sake ? Query whether a drunkard or libertine in a family causes such deep uneasiness to the household as that member who,':by ^wakening to the absolute necessity of conversion, becomes a living reproof to the unconcerned Godlessness of the rest ? With every wish, therefore, to be practical, and to avoid controversial theology, here is one contro¬ versy which must…
… Graviora. 583 " It's Easy Talking."—£/</ Adage. To " good easy (or bad easy ?) men," who talk of " free grace," I would…
… Graviora. 583 " It's Easy Talking."—£/</ Adage. To " good easy (or bad easy ?) men," who talk of " free grace," I would say, at parting, that " The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us "—a somewhat stern lesson, in Titus ii, 11-14. Also— " work out your own salvation," [if it is your own, i.e., if you have it, as you certainly may,] with fear…
… 584 Old Prices Remains. take not, went the length of treating himself to a pair oi ten-boots on the strength of his supposed fenmanship.…
… 584 Old Prices Remains. take not, went the length of treating himself to a pair oi ten-boots on the strength of his supposed fenmanship. I had, however, one or two opportunities of testing his abili¬ ties in this branch of education; and in particular I shall never forget his treatment of myself and a Jack Snipe, which we had marked at the Back of the Colleges, and whose marvellous escape he seemed, pro virili,…
… Miscellaneous. 5^5 and carrying the flags; being confident, though I say it, that, if any thing, I should conquer, though he has lived, at…
… Miscellaneous. 5^5 and carrying the flags; being confident, though I say it, that, if any thing, I should conquer, though he has lived, at "Slippery cum Sloppery," in Lincolnshire ever since,and .1 hardly ever see any thing in that line but a "bunch of Stints" in passing Mostyn Station, or those wary and weary Barnacles*, when naughty boys like Fr. or Ph. in¬ veigle me at full moon to the Wild Marsh by Shotwick,…
… 58<5 Old Price's Remains. usually attendant on rarity. What is true of verbal curiosities also applies to facts. We all, probably, can recal some…
… 58<5 Old Price's Remains. usually attendant on rarity. What is true of verbal curiosities also applies to facts. We all, probably, can recal some strange scene, such as, owing to the pecu¬ liarity of concurrent circumstances, we are never likely to see again! We treasure these, and well we may, as bright spots in the retrospect of a life often too monotonous (too many columns filled with "do., do.!") which these unique incidents help…
… Miscellaneous. $87 Mutual surprise ensued. For an instant, they instinctively crouched; but as quickly, finding concealment impracti¬ cable, took wing, leaving nine oval basins…
… Miscellaneous. $87 Mutual surprise ensued. For an instant, they instinctively crouched; but as quickly, finding concealment impracti¬ cable, took wing, leaving nine oval basins executed in that most lovely hyper-parian material, "the driven snow," by the momentary pressure of their compact, warm little bodies! If a gentle thaw followed, how must the nine mysterious moulds, standing in relief on the green field, have puzzled the natives ! Footmarks, when thus left, look strange enough,…