 | 1875 - 250 páginas
...knowledge of God 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...grace of faith, makes Up the HIGHEST PERFECTION."* Therefore, a loftier ambition should inspire parents and teachers than that of preparing children to... | |
 | 1864 - 546 páginas
...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 added to the •Heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Resohed, That the judicious... | |
 | Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) - 1865 - 128 páginas
...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...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 - 974 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 páginas
...by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true...heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in the body found itself but on sensible things, nor strive so... | |
 | 1909 - 1132 páginas
...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...heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.' Vives, in his first book of the De Tradendis Disciplinis, says : ' As the end of man, what other can... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 páginas
...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...heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. The second definition makes clear what is meant by the emphasis on virtue in the first : I call therefore... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 páginas
...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 - 198 páginas
...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 - 468 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
