 Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.  The Bible in Many Tongues - Page 141799 - 192 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1819 - 708 lehte
...fully justify the assertion of the celebrated Mr. Locke, that " it has God for its Author, eternal Life for its end, and Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." To peruse it therefore in that mode, and with those dispositions of heart, implied in its... | |
 | 1820 - 748 lehte
...all sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." " Young man, (said the learned Dr. Johnson, in his last illness, to a gentleman who sate by... | |
 | 492 lehte
...sin" cere, nothing too much, nothing wanting. Therein " are contained the words of eternal life. It has God " for its Author, Salvation for its end, and Truth, " without any mixture of error, for its matter." " Young man, " said the learned Dr. Johnson, in his last illness, to a gentleman who sate... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1820 - 498 lehte
...holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament : therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter*." I am, &c. * Locke's Posth. Works. AN APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, ADDRESSED... | |
 | Charles Stokes Dudley - 1821 - 620 lehte
...times as these that their value is felt and their application demanded. 3. " The Bible," says Locke, " has GOD for its author; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." The interest excited by a desire to possess it, or to assist in its universal diffusion, is... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 lehte
...himself, and can only be obtained by an absolute submission of the understanding to that word which hath "God for its author, Salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter ;" and which teaches us " this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God,... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - 1806
...to you with the infpired volume irt their hand, with the Bible, which has " God for its Author,— r Salvation for its end, — and Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter."* God's ambafTadors, negociating. his affairs, maintaining his intcrefts among men, what but... | |
 | James Heaton - 1822 - 286 lehte
...frequently asserted, proved, and exemplified, as tlie subject of spiritual agency is, in that book which has " God for its Author, Salvation for its...end, and Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter," cannot be destitute of utility and interest to men. But however important a knowledge of the... | |
 | Henry Matthews - 1822 - 328 lehte
...Rome — but as it is written and recorded in that sacred volume — which, in the words of Locke, has "God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter." 25th. Christinas day. A grand ceremony in the church of S. Maria Maggwre; — where mass was... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1822 - 242 lehte
...times have in vain endeavoured to assail. To ase the words of Mr. Locke, " The religion of this couutry has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its subject and its matter." Such a religion cannot be affected by the works of Paine* or those of 1* greater... | |
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