 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...  Examinations Papers - Page 611894Full view - About this book
 | Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers - Education - 1837 - 286 pages
...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...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 morality... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1838 - 296 pages
...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...which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, make up the highest perfection." Lord Kames says, " It appears unaccountable that our teachers generally... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1838 - 292 pages
...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...which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, make up the highest perfection." Lord Kames says, " It appears unaccountable that our teachers generally... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...parents by requiring to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, and to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing...which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, constitutes the highest perfection. The course of education was to resemble as closely as possible,... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 636 pages
...of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and of that knowledge to love him, to imitate, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing...as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching. And seeing every... | |
 | Science - 1830 - 1112 pages
...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...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection."t Scarcely subsidiary to this divine purpose, but indeed correlative with it, is the relation... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 598 pages
...of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and of that knowledge to love him, to imitate, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, t>eing united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1841 - 346 pages
...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 ourselves of true virtue, which, united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection."... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
...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 ourselves of true virtue, which, united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection."... | |
 | 1842 - 748 pages
...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...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." And of the second, he says in words that have been often quoted, but that will well bear to be quoted... | |
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