A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion:: Digested in Such Order as to Present to the Pious and Reflecting Mind, a Basis for the Superstructure of the Entire System of the Doctrines of the GospelDeare & Myer., 1815 - 543 pages |
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... force their evidence upon the mind , like the first truths of science , necessarily springing out of the comparison of our own ideas . The concurrence of all nations , in the belief of the being of God , is a decisive proof , either ...
... force their evidence upon the mind , like the first truths of science , necessarily springing out of the comparison of our own ideas . The concurrence of all nations , in the belief of the being of God , is a decisive proof , either ...
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... force of self - love should urge indulgence beyond that restricted and frugal boundary , at which prudence and virtue should arrest it . Self - interest , the cultivation of which belongs to this class of our duties , relates to ...
... force of self - love should urge indulgence beyond that restricted and frugal boundary , at which prudence and virtue should arrest it . Self - interest , the cultivation of which belongs to this class of our duties , relates to ...
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... force of political power and intrigue has been employed to establish this sen- timent among the people , this is surely an argument of no in- considerable weight for the truth of the doctrine . Other- wise , man must have been formed ...
... force of political power and intrigue has been employed to establish this sen- timent among the people , this is surely an argument of no in- considerable weight for the truth of the doctrine . Other- wise , man must have been formed ...
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... force of the imagination , and the penetration and energies of the understanding . And the same analogies incline us to expect the addition or develope- ment of many new faculties , of which , in the present state , the imperfection of ...
... force of the imagination , and the penetration and energies of the understanding . And the same analogies incline us to expect the addition or develope- ment of many new faculties , of which , in the present state , the imperfection of ...
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... force of the other . The masters of science among the Greeks , fully persuad- ed of this truth , never pretended to impart to the people any of their moral or theological systems ; believing them incom- petent to comprehend their first ...
... force of the other . The masters of science among the Greeks , fully persuad- ed of this truth , never pretended to impart to the people any of their moral or theological systems ; believing them incom- petent to comprehend their first ...
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Page 152 - But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Page 129 - And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul...
Page 228 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 152 - Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Page 382 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 227 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 230 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Page 137 - But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Page 425 - Christ; according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love ; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved...
Page 128 - The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand, a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.