Christian Philosophy: Or, An Attempt to Display by Internal Testimony, the Evidence and Excellence of Revealed Religion. With an Appendix, on Mr. Paine's Pamphlet, on Prayer, Etc. ...John Hoff, 1804 - 336 pages |
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... happiness is most deeply concerned , till they shall have invalidated those authorities , and proved themselves superior in sagacity , learn- ing , and piety , to the great men whose sen- timents I have cited in support of my own . Let ...
... happiness is most deeply concerned , till they shall have invalidated those authorities , and proved themselves superior in sagacity , learn- ing , and piety , to the great men whose sen- timents I have cited in support of my own . Let ...
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... happiness of mankind is at stake , a dispassionate and un- prejudiced attention . The moral world , as well as the political , appears at present , to be greatly out of order . Moral confusion , indeed , naturally produces political ...
... happiness of mankind is at stake , a dispassionate and un- prejudiced attention . The moral world , as well as the political , appears at present , to be greatly out of order . Moral confusion , indeed , naturally produces political ...
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... HAPPINESS , concerning the evidence of Christianity arising from divine Communication . XV . Passages from a well - known Book of an anonymous Author , intitled , Inward Testimony . : · XVI . Dr. Townson's Opinions on the evidence which ...
... HAPPINESS , concerning the evidence of Christianity arising from divine Communication . XV . Passages from a well - known Book of an anonymous Author , intitled , Inward Testimony . : · XVI . Dr. Townson's Opinions on the evidence which ...
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... . The universal Prevalence of the Holy Spirit - the genuine Grace of the Gospel - highly conducive to the happiness of civil Society , as well as of individuals . 171 SECTION XLV . Of Holiness - its true Meaning , CONTENTS . ix.
... . The universal Prevalence of the Holy Spirit - the genuine Grace of the Gospel - highly conducive to the happiness of civil Society , as well as of individuals . 171 SECTION XLV . Of Holiness - its true Meaning , CONTENTS . ix.
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... Happiness - Errors in the pur- suit of it . - No sublunary Happiness perfect - Christ's Invitation to the wretched . Christian Philosophy af- fords the highest earthly Satisfaction . Its Summum Bonum is a State of Grace , or the ...
... Happiness - Errors in the pur- suit of it . - No sublunary Happiness perfect - Christ's Invitation to the wretched . Christian Philosophy af- fords the highest earthly Satisfaction . Its Summum Bonum is a State of Grace , or the ...
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Page 325 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Page 107 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 290 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 203 - Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 130 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 312 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 261 - God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these Thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins ; strengthen them, we beseech Thee, O Lord, with the Holy Ghost the Comforter, and daily increase in them Thy manifold gifts of grace...
Page 188 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
Page 207 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page v - Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law...