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Page 87
We ourselves cannot attend to many different objects at the same time . If we are
careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect others . This
imperfection which we observe in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves in
some ...
We ourselves cannot attend to many different objects at the same time . If we are
careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect others . This
imperfection which we observe in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves in
some ...
Page 110
This therefore is a depth not , to be founded by human understanding . We are
sure that there has been an eternity , and yet contradict ourselves when we
measure this eternity by any notion which we can frame of it . If we go to the
bottom of ...
This therefore is a depth not , to be founded by human understanding . We are
sure that there has been an eternity , and yet contradict ourselves when we
measure this eternity by any notion which we can frame of it . If we go to the
bottom of ...
Page 200
It is our natural weakness , to fatter ourselves into a belief , that if we search into
our inmost thoughts , we find ourselves wholly difinterested , and divested of any
views arising from felf - love and vain - glory . But hov . however spirits of ...
It is our natural weakness , to fatter ourselves into a belief , that if we search into
our inmost thoughts , we find ourselves wholly difinterested , and divested of any
views arising from felf - love and vain - glory . But hov . however spirits of ...
Page 233
truth , so nothing is more irrational than to pass away our whole lives , without
determining ourselves one way or other in those points which are of the last
importance to us . There are indeed many things from which we may withhold our
...
truth , so nothing is more irrational than to pass away our whole lives , without
determining ourselves one way or other in those points which are of the last
importance to us . There are indeed many things from which we may withhold our
...
Page 286
The question we are all concerned in is this , In which of these two lives it is our
chief interest to make ourselves happy ? Or , in other words , Whether we should
endeavour to secure to ourselves the pleasures and gratis gratifications of a life ...
The question we are all concerned in is this , In which of these two lives it is our
chief interest to make ourselves happy ? Or , in other words , Whether we should
endeavour to secure to ourselves the pleasures and gratis gratifications of a life ...
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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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