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Page viii
he makes it appear that several things which we judge to be contrary to Reafon ,
because above the reach of our Understanding , are not therefore to be thought
unreafonable , because we cannot comprehend them , since they may be ...
he makes it appear that several things which we judge to be contrary to Reafon ,
because above the reach of our Understanding , are not therefore to be thought
unreafonable , because we cannot comprehend them , since they may be ...
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And in this list of evidences , I shall confine myself to such learned Pagans as
came over to Christianity in the three first centuries , because those were the
times in which men had the best means of informing themselves of the truth of our
...
And in this list of evidences , I shall confine myself to such learned Pagans as
came over to Christianity in the three first centuries , because those were the
times in which men had the best means of informing themselves of the truth of our
...
Page 177
Notwithstanding this general division of Christian duty into morality and faith , and
that they have both their peculiar ex' cellencies , the first has the preeminence in
several respects . : First , Because the greatest part of morality ( as I have stated ...
Notwithstanding this general division of Christian duty into morality and faith , and
that they have both their peculiar ex' cellencies , the first has the preeminence in
several respects . : First , Because the greatest part of morality ( as I have stated ...
Page 178
Fourtbly , Because the rule of morality is much more certain than that of faich , all
the civilized nations of the world agreeing in the great points of morality , as much
as they differ in those of faith . • Fifthly , Because infidelity is not of fo malignant ...
Fourtbly , Because the rule of morality is much more certain than that of faich , all
the civilized nations of the world agreeing in the great points of morality , as much
as they differ in those of faith . • Fifthly , Because infidelity is not of fo malignant ...
Page 225
A Believer may be excufed by the « moft hardened Atheist for endeavour6 ing to
make him a Convert , because he « does it with an eye to both their inte« rests .
The Atheist is inexcusable who • tries to gain over a Believer , because he • does
...
A Believer may be excufed by the « moft hardened Atheist for endeavour6 ing to
make him a Convert , because he « does it with an eye to both their inte« rests .
The Atheist is inexcusable who • tries to gain over a Believer , because he • does
...
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Page 234 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Page 91 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 191 - After it a voice roareth: He thundereth with the voice of his excellency; And he will not stay them when his voice is heard. God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
Page 213 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page xvii - 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.
Page 105 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Page 119 - Existence is a blessing to those beings only which are endowed with perception, and is in a manner thrown away upon dead matter, any further than as it is subservient to beings which are conscious of their existence.
Page 89 - It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into .another, or to withdraw himself from any thing he has created, or from any part of that space which is diffused and spread abroad to infinity.
Page 285 - But when the choice we actually have before us is this, whether we will...
Page 247 - The thoughts of a freethinker are employed on certain minute particularities of religion, the difficulty of a single text, or the unaccountableness of some step of Providence or point of doctrine to his narrow faculties, without comprehending the scope and design of Christianity...
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| Title | The Evidences of the Christian Religion |
| Author | Joseph Addison |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 29 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 330 pages |
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