The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: The principles of natural and revealed religionLuke Hansard & Sons, 1811 |
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... needs be admirably qualified for the discovery of Truth ! While just as one or other of the complexions carries him , the man is drawn by a strong , though hidden impulse , into the very centre of his congenial system . And what will be ...
... needs be admirably qualified for the discovery of Truth ! While just as one or other of the complexions carries him , the man is drawn by a strong , though hidden impulse , into the very centre of his congenial system . And what will be ...
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... needs be founded in false judgment : False judgment proceeds from ignorance , or a superficial view of things : But this ignorance is the proper allotment of the Vulgar ; So + Jam . chap . iii . 17 . that , 2 Tim . chap . iii . 15 ...
... needs be founded in false judgment : False judgment proceeds from ignorance , or a superficial view of things : But this ignorance is the proper allotment of the Vulgar ; So + Jam . chap . iii . 17 . that , 2 Tim . chap . iii . 15 ...
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... needs be formed on a true judgment of things . This judgment springs from a profound view of Nature . But such a view requires a large detail : and the mutual connexions and dependencies of things , a strict examination : hence the ...
... needs be formed on a true judgment of things . This judgment springs from a profound view of Nature . But such a view requires a large detail : and the mutual connexions and dependencies of things , a strict examination : hence the ...
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... needs make the several parts of the covenant very dissimilar . So that , if from Man's nature and situation we may expect , that , when God vouchsafes to direct us by a revela- tion of his WILL , all his commands will be brief , evident ...
... needs make the several parts of the covenant very dissimilar . So that , if from Man's nature and situation we may expect , that , when God vouchsafes to direct us by a revela- tion of his WILL , all his commands will be brief , evident ...
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... need not wonder , that a better understanding than commonly falls to the share of the People is required to enable us to see the force of such reasoning . It But is this general incapacity any real objection to the truth of our Religion ...
... need not wonder , that a better understanding than commonly falls to the share of the People is required to enable us to see the force of such reasoning . It But is this general incapacity any real objection to the truth of our Religion ...
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Page 144 - That seeing they may see, and not perceive ; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Page 146 - Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.
Page 216 - And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. THEN said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come : but woe unto him , through whom they come ! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Page 268 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Page 350 - But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Page 102 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, and the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Page 202 - Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Page 184 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone; in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Page 146 - And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; And see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, And make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Page 355 - If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth; and her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.