History of All Christian Sects and Denominations: Their Origin, Peculiar Tenets, and Present Condition, with an Introductory Account of Atheists, Deists, Jews, Mahometans, Pagans, &c. From the 15th London Ed. Rev. and Enl., with the Addition of the Most Recent Statistics Relating to Religious Sects in the United StatesJ.P. Mendum, 1875 - 284 pages |
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... mankind . The longer he lives , the more he is convin- With regard to the present edition , every article has been most carefully revised . The author has availed himself of the latest communications from some of the leading ministers ...
... mankind . The longer he lives , the more he is convin- With regard to the present edition , every article has been most carefully revised . The author has availed himself of the latest communications from some of the leading ministers ...
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... mankind of a Divine power and Providence , that there was no such person as an Atheist till their ridiculous idolatries had tempted some men of wit and thought rather to own no God than such as the Heathens worshipped . " Dr. Priestley ...
... mankind of a Divine power and Providence , that there was no such person as an Atheist till their ridiculous idolatries had tempted some men of wit and thought rather to own no God than such as the Heathens worshipped . " Dr. Priestley ...
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... mankind , With patience bear the lot to thee assign'd ; Nor think it chance , nor murmur at the load ; For know what man calls fortune is from God , In what thou mayest from Wisdom seek relief , And let her healing hand assuage thy ...
... mankind , With patience bear the lot to thee assign'd ; Nor think it chance , nor murmur at the load ; For know what man calls fortune is from God , In what thou mayest from Wisdom seek relief , And let her healing hand assuage thy ...
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... mankind explain'd the mystic four , Source of eternal nature and almighty pow'r . In all thou dost first let thy pray'rs ascend , And to the gods thy labors first commend , From them implore success , and hope a prosp'rous end . So ...
... mankind explain'd the mystic four , Source of eternal nature and almighty pow'r . In all thou dost first let thy pray'rs ascend , And to the gods thy labors first commend , From them implore success , and hope a prosp'rous end . So ...
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... mankind , Reveal the Demon for that task assigned , The wretched race an end of woes would find . And yet be bold , O man , divine thou art , And of the gods celestial essence part . Nor sacred nature is from thee concealed , But to thy ...
... mankind , Reveal the Demon for that task assigned , The wretched race an end of woes would find . And yet be bold , O man , divine thou art , And of the gods celestial essence part . Nor sacred nature is from thee concealed , But to thy ...
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Page 136 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 168 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 218 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands ; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Page 168 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Page 280 - Trust ye not in lying words, saying: — "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord are these.
Page 66 - I profess likewise that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead ; and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly. really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 165 - And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Page 12 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 102 - England ; no man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful Bishop, Priest, or Deacon in the Church of England, or suffered to execute any of the said Functions, except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted thereunto, according to the Form hereafter following, or hath had formerly Episcopal Consecration, or Ordination.
Page 53 - Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.