The Age of Reason: In Two PartsG.N. Devries, 1827 - 172 pages |
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... moral mischief , if I may so express it , that mental lying has pro- duced in society . When a man has so far corrupt- ed and prostituted the chastity of his mind , as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe ...
... moral mischief , if I may so express it , that mental lying has pro- duced in society . When a man has so far corrupt- ed and prostituted the chastity of his mind , as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe ...
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... moral pre- cepts , such as any man qualified to be a lawgiver , or legislator , could produce himself , without hav- ing recourse to supernatural intervention . * When I am told that the Koran was written in heaven , and brought to ...
... moral pre- cepts , such as any man qualified to be a lawgiver , or legislator , could produce himself , without hav- ing recourse to supernatural intervention . * When I am told that the Koran was written in heaven , and brought to ...
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... moral virtues , and the belief of one God . The great trait in his char- acter is philanthropy . The manner in which he was apprehended , shews that he was not much known at that time ; and it shews also , that the meetings he then held ...
... moral virtues , and the belief of one God . The great trait in his char- acter is philanthropy . The manner in which he was apprehended , shews that he was not much known at that time ; and it shews also , that the meetings he then held ...
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... moral jus tice . If I owe a person money , and cannot pay him , an he threatens to put me in prison , another perso can take the debt upon himself , and pay it for me but if I have committed a crime , every circum stance of the case is ...
... moral jus tice . If I owe a person money , and cannot pay him , an he threatens to put me in prison , another perso can take the debt upon himself , and pay it for me but if I have committed a crime , every circum stance of the case is ...
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... moral life will follow of course . The allusions in Job have all of them the same tendency with this Psalm ; that of deducing or pro- ving a truth , that would be otherwise unknown from truths already known . I recollect not enough of ...
... moral life will follow of course . The allusions in Job have all of them the same tendency with this Psalm ; that of deducing or pro- ving a truth , that would be otherwise unknown from truths already known . I recollect not enough of ...
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Page 147 - Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
Page 34 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as...
Page 101 - And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him.
Page 113 - These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Page 112 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 137 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 123 - We beseech thee, let this man be put to death : for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them : for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Page 105 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The...
Page 108 - The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore...
Page 8 - I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.