 | Alexander Campbell - 1863 - Počet stránok 654
...of God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, make up the highest perfection." And St. Pierre, in his " Studies of Nature," often enjoins that religion... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - Počet stránok 592
...know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which...nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible, as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is... | |
 | 1875 - Počet stránok 250
...and ourselves, and from " that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, and be like Him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which...grace of faith, makes Up the HIGHEST PERFECTION."* Therefore, a loftier ambition should inspire parents and teachers than that of preparing children to... | |
 | Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) - 1865 - Počet stránok 128
...know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Then will the ingenuous youth of the land resort here, "inflamed with a love of learning and the admiration... | |
 | 1899 - Počet stránok 974
...which we may recover the image of God, and possess our souls in true "virtue " in its widest sense, " which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Religious ideas and religious emotions, under the influence of the Puritan habit of mind, seek to realise... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - Počet stránok 412
...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.'57 Furthermore, in the logic of the poem, as is more fully explained in the note on 4.... | |
 | John Mulryan - 1982 - Počet stránok 198
...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection," 5 - a formulation akin to so many similar pronouncements that call to life a wellknown Neoplatonic... | |
 | John Milton - 1985 - Počet stránok 468
...widely known through Hartlib's abstract in 1639. may the nearest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. 5 But because our understanding cannot in this body found it self but on sensible things, nor arrive... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - Počet stránok 260
...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. (4:277) But the opening lines of PL dwell much less on salvation than on sin. The relative emphasis... | |
 | John S. Mebane - 1992 - Počet stránok 340
...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."21 A few paragraphs later in Milton's essay we learn what the practical consequences of... | |
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united... 
