Thoughts on Religion and Other Important Subjects: Recently Translated from the French of Blaise Pascal, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings by the Translator [Thomas Chevalier].Samuel Bagster, 1806 - 384 pages |
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... divine grace on the human mind , and the consistency of predes- tination with the freedom of the will . Problems not solvable by human penetration ; and which , under different titles , have been , in all ages , the torture and the ...
... divine grace on the human mind , and the consistency of predes- tination with the freedom of the will . Problems not solvable by human penetration ; and which , under different titles , have been , in all ages , the torture and the ...
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... Divine Superintendance in the world , and confirming the authority of divine revelation . No such purpose was , or could be answered by a miracle in the instance in ques- tion . The relief of an individual , or of a body of people , may ...
... Divine Superintendance in the world , and confirming the authority of divine revelation . No such purpose was , or could be answered by a miracle in the instance in ques- tion . The relief of an individual , or of a body of people , may ...
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... divine arrange- ment . Two prizes were accordingly proposed for the solution of two problems . Forty pistoles for the first , and twenty for the second . The enunciation of these problems was written by Pascal , under the assumed name ...
... divine arrange- ment . Two prizes were accordingly proposed for the solution of two problems . Forty pistoles for the first , and twenty for the second . The enunciation of these problems was written by Pascal , under the assumed name ...
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... divine legis meditatione transac- tos , feliciter et religiosè in pace Christi vitâ func- tus anno 1662 , ¿tatis 39 , die 19 Augusti . Op- tasset ille quidem pr¿ paupertatis et humilitatis Sanguine et animo pariter illustris ; Doctus ...
... divine legis meditatione transac- tos , feliciter et religiosè in pace Christi vitâ func- tus anno 1662 , ¿tatis 39 , die 19 Augusti . Op- tasset ille quidem pr¿ paupertatis et humilitatis Sanguine et animo pariter illustris ; Doctus ...
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... divine legis meditatione transac- tos , feliciter et religiosè in puce Christi vita func- tus anno 1662 , ¿tatis 39 , die 19 Augusti . Op- tasset ille quidem pr¿ paupertatis et humilitatis tuusque etiamnum latere , qui vivus semper ...
... divine legis meditatione transac- tos , feliciter et religiosè in puce Christi vita func- tus anno 1662 , ¿tatis 39 , die 19 Augusti . Op- tasset ille quidem pr¿ paupertatis et humilitatis tuusque etiamnum latere , qui vivus semper ...
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Page 262 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 264 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 205 - They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities : and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people ; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 285 - I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. 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.
Page 204 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 204 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Page 209 - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and God-head, so that they are without excuse...
Page 205 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 334 - He saith, sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of me,) to do Thy will, O God.
Page 204 - Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.