Philosophical and Critical Enquiries Concerning ChristianityJ. Stockdale, Piccadilly; C. Dilly, Poultry; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1787 - 298 pages |
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... Various Obfervations on Infects Memoirs of Natural History A 2 I vol . Inquiries The prefent work reprefents Christianity in a philofophical point of CHAP Objections to Teftimony, drawn from СНАР Doctrine of the first Difciples of.
... Various Obfervations on Infects Memoirs of Natural History A 2 I vol . Inquiries The prefent work reprefents Christianity in a philofophical point of CHAP Objections to Teftimony, drawn from СНАР Doctrine of the first Difciples of.
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... first traced out to me ( by the most weighty ar- guments , and in the most perfuafive language ) the road which leads to truth . A ferious and clofe perufal of the following Inquiries , confirmed my belief in Chriftianity ; and it will ...
... first traced out to me ( by the most weighty ar- guments , and in the most perfuafive language ) the road which leads to truth . A ferious and clofe perufal of the following Inquiries , confirmed my belief in Chriftianity ; and it will ...
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... . has intitled Introduction to the Inqui- ries . The preface was in the first edition , 1770 , and has been fuppreffed in the last complete edition . BATH , 1787 . PREFACE PREFACE 犀 OF THE AUTHOR . T was one great vi TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE .
... . has intitled Introduction to the Inqui- ries . The preface was in the first edition , 1770 , and has been fuppreffed in the last complete edition . BATH , 1787 . PREFACE PREFACE 犀 OF THE AUTHOR . T was one great vi TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE .
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... first setting out . If unbelievers adopt an offen- five and unbecoming ftyle towards Christians , it is no reason why these fhould employ the fame offenfive language . In almost every author whose works have engaged my studies and ...
... first setting out . If unbelievers adopt an offen- five and unbecoming ftyle towards Christians , it is no reason why these fhould employ the fame offenfive language . In almost every author whose works have engaged my studies and ...
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... First Cause . P. I. II , The Love of Happiness the Bafis of the natural Laws of Man . - Confe- quence in Favour of the Perfection of the moral Syftem . - The Laws of Nature the Language of the Legif- lator . воок II . P. 12 I. Teftimony ...
... First Cause . P. I. II , The Love of Happiness the Bafis of the natural Laws of Man . - Confe- quence in Favour of the Perfection of the moral Syftem . - The Laws of Nature the Language of the Legif- lator . воок II . P. 12 I. Teftimony ...
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Page 101 - Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Page 183 - And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Page 244 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Page 182 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 112 - ... not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Page 112 - Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Page 102 - Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled ; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Page 197 - Jhall all men knoiv that ye are my difciples, if ye have love one to another .—'Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend...
Page 117 - The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Page 78 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.