The Presbyterian Magazine, Volumen 9,Número 10Cortlandt Van Rensselaer W. H. Mitchell (etc.), 1859 |
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Página 444 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 445 - Virginia, have had it in their minds, and have proposed to themselves, to the end that the Church of Virginia may be furnished with a seminary of ministers of the gospel, and that the youth may be piously educated in good letters and manners, and that the Christian faith may be propagated amongst the Western Indians, to the glory of Almighty God...
Página 463 - Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
Página 463 - Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
Página 444 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Página 444 - The constitution proposed as the object to be attained in its foundation, " piety, morality, and learning. And for the purpose of securing these ends, the students were to be practised twice a day in reading the Scriptures, giving an account of their proficiency and experience in practical and spiritual truths, accompanied by theoretical observations on the language and logic of the sacred writings. They were carefully to attend God's ordinances, and be examined on their profiting, commonplacing...
Página 458 - Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament ordained by Jesus Christ to be unto the party baptized a sign of his fellowship with him in his death and resurrection; of his being engrafted into him; of remission of sins ; and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.
Página 438 - the praise of having originally established schools, belong to some bishops and abbots of the sixth century. They came in the place of the imperial schools overthrown by the barbarians.
Página 466 - Although the shadow deepened In the moment of eclipse, When he passed through the dread portal, With the blessing on his lips. And to him who bravely conquers As he conquered in the strife, Life is but the way of dying — Death is but the gate of life...
Página 458 - We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the word of God...