The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation Shewn from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World: Especially with Respect to the Knowledge and Worship of the One True God : a Rule of Moral Duty : and a State of Future Rewards and Punishments. To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Discourse on Natural and Revealed Religion, 2. köideThe University Press, 1819 |
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... afterwards preserved and spread among " their descendants by means of education and custom : yet " this does not hinder , but that the knowledge of these laws " may be called natural , inasmuch as the truth and certainty " of them may ...
... afterwards preserved and spread among " their descendants by means of education and custom : yet " this does not hinder , but that the knowledge of these laws " may be called natural , inasmuch as the truth and certainty " of them may ...
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... were necessary to enable him to answer the higher purposes of his destination . And what made his case more particular and different from that of those who were afterwards born into the world PART I. ] 39 MAN A RELIGIOUS CREATURE .
... were necessary to enable him to answer the higher purposes of his destination . And what made his case more particular and different from that of those who were afterwards born into the world PART I. ] 39 MAN A RELIGIOUS CREATURE .
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... afterwards born into the world , he had no human parents , nor instructors of his own species , which is the ordinary way by which men , in the present state , re- ceive the first rudiments of knowledge . If it be said he might soon ...
... afterwards born into the world , he had no human parents , nor instructors of his own species , which is the ordinary way by which men , in the present state , re- ceive the first rudiments of knowledge . If it be said he might soon ...
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... afterwards by the Epicureans , and others who call themselves philosophers . The history Moses gives us of the first ages of the world before the flood , is very short : but it sufficiently appears from it , that the first parents of ...
... afterwards by the Epicureans , and others who call themselves philosophers . The history Moses gives us of the first ages of the world before the flood , is very short : but it sufficiently appears from it , that the first parents of ...
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... afterwards . And this is best accounted for by supposing it to have been part of the primitive religion , derived from the first parents of the human race , who had it by immediate re- velation from God himself . That there was an ...
... afterwards . And this is best accounted for by supposing it to have been part of the primitive religion , derived from the first parents of the human race , who had it by immediate re- velation from God himself . That there was an ...
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Page 360 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 272 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 323 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 360 - ... and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Page 210 - What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light : and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Page 264 - Sit igitur hoc iam a principio persuasum civibus, dominos esse omnium rerum ac moderatores deos, eaque, quae gerantur, eorum geri iudicio ac numine, eosdemque optime de genere hominum mereri et, qualis quisque sit, quid agat, quid in se admittat, qua mente, qua pietate colat religiones, intueri piorumque et impiorum habere rationem ; 16 his enim rebus inbutae mentes haud sane abhorrebunt ab utili aut a vera sententia.
Page 333 - Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 325 - I perceive, that God is no respecter of persons ; but in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Page 87 - God, and could not out of the good " things that are seen know him that is : neither by consider" ing the works did they acknowledge the workmaster ; but " deemed either fire or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of " the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to " be the gods which govern the world.
Page 154 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves...