Origines Sacrae: Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, 1. köideClarendon Press, 1817 |
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... souls of all good men bear to such designs , whose end is to assert and vindicate the truth and excellency of religion . For those who are enriched themselves with the inestimable treasure of true goodness and piety , are far from that ...
... souls of all good men bear to such designs , whose end is to assert and vindicate the truth and excellency of religion . For those who are enriched themselves with the inestimable treasure of true goodness and piety , are far from that ...
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... soul by too long steep- ing , it being the nature of all terrestrial pleasures , that they do έκτήκειν καὶ ἀνυγραίνειν τὸ φρονέν , by de- grees consume reason , by effeminating and soft- ening the intellectuals . Must we appeal then to ...
... soul by too long steep- ing , it being the nature of all terrestrial pleasures , that they do έκτήκειν καὶ ἀνυγραίνειν τὸ φρονέν , by de- grees consume reason , by effeminating and soft- ening the intellectuals . Must we appeal then to ...
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... soul , as to its future condition , upon any authority less than the infallible veracity of God himself ? What certain directions for practice should we have , what rule to judge of opinions by , had not God out of his infinite goodness ...
... soul , as to its future condition , upon any authority less than the infallible veracity of God himself ? What certain directions for practice should we have , what rule to judge of opinions by , had not God out of his infinite goodness ...
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... souls of men , and a due valuation of it , whatever its esteem or entertain- ment be in the world . For though the true ge- nuine spirit of Christianity ( which is known by the purity and peaceableness of it ) should grow never so much ...
... souls of men , and a due valuation of it , whatever its esteem or entertain- ment be in the world . For though the true ge- nuine spirit of Christianity ( which is known by the purity and peaceableness of it ) should grow never so much ...
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... souls of men , were they not of a more excellent nature than they imagine them to be . And how contradictious is it for such persons to be ambitious of being cried up for wit and reason , whose design is to degrade the rational soul so ...
... souls of men , were they not of a more excellent nature than they imagine them to be . And how contradictious is it for such persons to be ambitious of being cried up for wit and reason , whose design is to degrade the rational soul so ...
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Page 168 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 256 - THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life ; (for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us...
Page 264 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 307 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.
Page 161 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 202 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 317 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 168 - That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...
Page 179 - The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the Lord hath truly sent him.
Page 203 - Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.