The Athenian Oracle: Being a Entire Collection of All the Valuable Questions and Answers in the Old Athenian Mercuries. Intermix'd with Many Cases in Divinity, History, Philosophy, Mathematics, Love, Poetry; Never Before Publish'd. To which is Added, an Alphabetical Table for the Speedy Finding of Any Questions, 2. köideJohn Dunton, Richard Sault, Samuel Wesley J. and J. Knapton, 1728 |
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... Divine . Te Great Unknown , this You have aim'd at Now : And tho ' coy Nature flies our fearching View , Whilft clouded Reafon's coop'd within this Cage , Yet you have bless'd thus far this happy Age ; Whate'er the fearching Study of ...
... Divine . Te Great Unknown , this You have aim'd at Now : And tho ' coy Nature flies our fearching View , Whilft clouded Reafon's coop'd within this Cage , Yet you have bless'd thus far this happy Age ; Whate'er the fearching Study of ...
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... Divine Worship is equally Sacred with that ofGods own immediate Appointment : However , the Obligation is even here fo ftrong , as none but a def- perate Man will attempt to break thro ' it , fince Fafting being in it felf a Duty ...
... Divine Worship is equally Sacred with that ofGods own immediate Appointment : However , the Obligation is even here fo ftrong , as none but a def- perate Man will attempt to break thro ' it , fince Fafting being in it felf a Duty ...
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... Divine and other ? ' twere your own Orefies : and we are almoft confident that one who is Miftrefs of fo fine a Soul , has alfo Strength enough to lay the greateft Violence on her Inclinati- ons , and whatsoever it costs her , fhake off ...
... Divine and other ? ' twere your own Orefies : and we are almoft confident that one who is Miftrefs of fo fine a Soul , has alfo Strength enough to lay the greateft Violence on her Inclinati- ons , and whatsoever it costs her , fhake off ...
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... Divine Being ; but Heaven , Hell , Judgment and Torment , make no more Impreffion on my Mind when they are difcourfed feriou- fly , than they can on a Block or Stone . When I remember my former Station , my Reafon dif- covers my prefent ...
... Divine Being ; but Heaven , Hell , Judgment and Torment , make no more Impreffion on my Mind when they are difcourfed feriou- fly , than they can on a Block or Stone . When I remember my former Station , my Reafon dif- covers my prefent ...
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... divine Goodness , and defign'd for the good of Mankind ; but if they be abus'd , they are on- ly accidentally evil , this is owing to ourselves , and not to be charg'd upon Providence , by any one that has either common Senfe , Grati ...
... divine Goodness , and defign'd for the good of Mankind ; but if they be abus'd , they are on- ly accidentally evil , this is owing to ourselves , and not to be charg'd upon Providence , by any one that has either common Senfe , Grati ...
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Page 97 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils : ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Page 496 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 511 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 287 - A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Page 172 - Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon : but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
Page 387 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 358 - ... now, I say, be you assured, that even with my whole heart, God is my witness, in the bowels of Christ I love you in the truth, and for the truth's sake which abideth in us, and, as I am persuaded, shall, by the grace of God, abide in us for evermore.
Page 453 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 151 - Moses' seat, and made laws as authoritative as His.* Moses was said to have received the law on Sinai and then committed it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, the elders to the prophets, the prophets to the men of the Great Synagogue, who thus, as the makers of the oral, took their place beside the creators of the scriptural, law.