 | Congregational churches - 1830 - 684 pages
...government, whose very acts of pardon were written in such blood, was terror, not paternal lovej and lhat the obedience, which needed to be upheld by this horrid spectacle, was nothing worth ?" Works, p. 423. A. LAMSON. — " The spectacle ul a sinless being stretched on the cross, to expiate... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 38 pages
...were written in such blood, was terror, not paternal love ; and that t',,e obedience, which heeded to be upheld by this horrid spectacle, was nothing worth ? Would you not say to Kim, that even you, in this infancy and imperfection of your being, were capable of being wrought upon... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1834 - 210 pages
...THREW GLOOM OVER THE UNIVERSE ; that the spirit of a government, whose very acts of pardon were wriiten in such blood, was terror, not paternal love ; and...you, in this infancy and imperfection of your being, u-ere capable of being wrought upon by nobler motives, and of hating sin through more generous views... | |
 | Abner Kneeland, Samuel Dunn Parker - Blasphemy - 1834 - 282 pages
...blood, was terror, not paternal love ; and that obedience, which needed to he upheld by this horTid spectacle, was nothing worth ? Would you not say to...capable of being wrought upon by nobler motives, and of bating sin through more generous views ; and that much more the angels, those pure flames of love,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 412 pages
...appointed, as a most conspicuous and terrible manifestation of God's justice, and of the infinite woe denounced by his law ; and suppose him to add, that...not say to him, that even you, in this infancy and imperfecTiorr—.^ of your being, were capable of being wrought upon by nobler motives, and of hating... | |
 | Moses Stuart - Congregational churches - 1846 - 394 pages
...blood, was terror not paternal love ; and that the obedience, which needed to be upheld by this horrible spectacle, was nothing worth ? Would you not say to him, that even I you, in this infancy and imperfection of your being, were capable of being wrought upon by nobler... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Unitarian churches - 1865 - 620 pages
...were written in such blood, was terror, not paternal love ; and that the obedience which needed to Ы" upheld by this horrid spectacle was nothing worth...even you. in this infancy and imperfection of your belng, were capable of belng wrought n|)on by nobler motives, and of hating sin through more generous... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1866 - 398 pages
...appointed, as a most conspicuous and terrible manifestation of God's justice, and of the infinite woe denounced by his law; and suppose him to add, that...by nobler motives, and of hating sin through more gener« pus views ; and that much more the angels, those pure flames of love, need not the gallows... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1870 - 764 pages
...Jesus, bting the second person of the Trinity, was able to make infinite satisfaction for sin ; and upheld by this horrid spectacle was nothing worth?...imperfection of your being, were capable of being wrought what, they ask, in Unitarianism, can compare upon by nobler motives, and of hating sin with this? I... | |
 | History - 1871 - 432 pages
...earth " are required to fix their eyes on this fearful '•sight, as the most powerful enforcement ol "obedience and virtue. Would you not tell ' him that...you not say to 'him, that even you, in this infancy and'im' perfection of your being, were capable of • being wrought upon by nobler motives, and ' of... | |
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... enforcement of obedience and virtue. Would you not tell him, that he calumniated his Maker ? Would you not say to him, that this central gallows threw gloom over the universe ; that the spirit of a government, whose very acts of pardon were written... 