 My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and swallowing up all thought and imagination ; like an infinite deluge, or mountains over my head. I know not how to express better what my sins appear to me to be, than by...  The Works of President Edwards ... - Stran 130avtor: Jonathan Edwards - 1830Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Susan Howe - 1985 - 146 strani
...Plan. Everlasting damnation or the slim chance of election to salvation waited beyond an unseen Ocean. I know not how to express better what my sins appear...these many years, these expressions are in my mind, and in my mouth, "Infinite upon infinite . . . Infinite upon infinite!" When I look into my heart,... | |
 | Herbert A. Leibowitz - 1991 - 420 strani
...vomit" and a penitent longing "after God, and holiness," he speaks in a voice of edifying passion: My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared...thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge, or mountain over my head. I know not how to express better what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 strani
...himself; I thought their expressions seemed exceeding faint and feeble, to represent my wickedness. My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared...these many years, these expressions are in my mind, and in my mouth, "Infinite upon infinite — Infinite upon infinite!" When I look into my heart, and... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 strani
...ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge, or infinite mountains over my head. I know not how to express...upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. I go about very often, for this many years, with these expressions in my mind, and in my mouth, "Infinite... | |
 | J. Robertson McQuilkin - 1995 - 590 strani
...exact expression unsurpassed among the sons of men.9 To such a man, let us listen, as he continues: My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared...sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite on infinite and multiplying infinite by infinite. Very often for these many years, these expressions... | |
 | Edward J. Ingebretsen - 1996 - 286 strani
...ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge, or infinite mountains over my head. I know not how to express...upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite (Levin, p. 37) .24 In extremis, as it were, Edwards finds himself repeating words almost as an incantation,... | |
 | Gerald R McDermott - 1996 - 262 strani
...beginning of the world to this time; and that I should have by far the lowest place in hell. . . . My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared...thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge, or mountain over my head. I know not how to express better what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 strani
...me, I should wonder at myself, if I should express my wickedness in such feeble terms as they did. = б ݨ` 僠C J Yz6 Ә + G 6 EV_' Y n% K?x X]O D .4 c2顴= 3DK infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge, or infinite mountains... | |
 | Laura Henigman - 1999 - 256 strani
...also contains vast quantities — of sin — so vast as to be similarly evocative of sublime polarity. "My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared...thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge, or infinite mountains over my head." It "swallow[s] up all thought and imagination"; it is "an abyss infinitely... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 strani
...me, I should wonder at myself, if I should express my wickedness in such feeble terms as they did. My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge, or infinite mountains... | |
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