Origines Sacrae: Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1817 |
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... matter contained in it , you will not think it beneath your favour , and unworthy your protection . For if truth be the greatest present which God could bestow , or man receive , ( according to that of Plutarch , s - Plutarch . θρώπῳ ...
... matter contained in it , you will not think it beneath your favour , and unworthy your protection . For if truth be the greatest present which God could bestow , or man receive , ( according to that of Plutarch , s - Plutarch . θρώπῳ ...
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... matter not what rubbish there lies within . The utmost of their ambition is to attain enervatam felicitatem qua permadescunt animi , such a felicity as evigorates the soul by too long steep- ing , it being the nature of all terrestrial ...
... matter not what rubbish there lies within . The utmost of their ambition is to attain enervatam felicitatem qua permadescunt animi , such a felicity as evigorates the soul by too long steep- ing , it being the nature of all terrestrial ...
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... matter of great pity to consider that any persons , whose birth and education hath raised them above the common people of the world , should be so far their own enemies , as to observe the fashion more than the rules of reli- gion , and ...
... matter of great pity to consider that any persons , whose birth and education hath raised them above the common people of the world , should be so far their own enemies , as to observe the fashion more than the rules of reli- gion , and ...
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... matter of judgment to disbelieve the Scriptures , and a piece of wit to dispute themselves out of the possibility of being happy in another world . When yet the more acute and sub- tle their arguments are , the greater their strength is ...
... matter of judgment to disbelieve the Scriptures , and a piece of wit to dispute themselves out of the possibility of being happy in another world . When yet the more acute and sub- tle their arguments are , the greater their strength is ...
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... Matter of History . X. The Time of Berosus enquired into ; his Writing contemporary with Philadelphus . Page 37 . • CHAP . IV . The Defect of the Grecian History . I. That manifested by three evident arguments of it . ( 1. ) The ...
... Matter of History . X. The Time of Berosus enquired into ; his Writing contemporary with Philadelphus . Page 37 . • CHAP . IV . The Defect of the Grecian History . I. That manifested by three evident arguments of it . ( 1. ) The ...
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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.