Jonathan Edwards. E-book. Formato PDF Alexander Viets Griswold Allen   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

From this principle he proceeds to deduce the conclusion that similarity, proportion, harmony, partake of the nature of excellence, since they are agreeable to that which has existence. These things are in accordance with the law implanted in our being. Beyond this statement it is not nec essary to go. The simple gift of perception, with which intelligent being is endowed, is in itself a pleasure and a blessing, and perception is pleased in beholding harmony and proportion wherever he looks. All beings or existences appear _to stand 111 certain relationships, and in the fulfihnent of these relationships lies'the fulness of a real life. What ever contradicts harmony, or weakens or contra dicts relationships, diminishes the fulness of exist ence, and approaches the state of nothingness, which is the greatest evil. To app1ove, the11,of this primarr-yglaw Of one' s being which demands the realization of harmony and proportion, is to recog nize the principle of all excellence.

The Reformation: A Brief Exposition of Some of the Errors and Corruptions. E-book. Formato PDF Alexander Viets Griswold   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Emboldened by this extraordinary movement, a bishop of the Romish Church has published a Letter, addressed to the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, inviting them to union with the Papists, and more than intimating that there is now but little which separates us from them; that sub mitting to the pope is necessary to the saving of our souls; and that, unless we do it, numbers may brew/t from owr ranks.