The Works of William Paley ...: Comprising the Additional Volume of Sermons First Published in 1825, with a Memoir of His Life : Complete in Six Volumes, Volume 5Hilliard and Brown, 1830 |
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... reason to fear censure on this account , as I have inclination to offend your Lordship's feelings , or insult your good sense . Truth shrinks not from trial by the public judgment . The honour reflected upon your public conduct , by ...
... reason to fear censure on this account , as I have inclination to offend your Lordship's feelings , or insult your good sense . Truth shrinks not from trial by the public judgment . The honour reflected upon your public conduct , by ...
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... reason , and are received without inquiry . One of these , as I apprehend , is the expecting to find , in the present circumstan- ces of Christianity , a meaning for , or something answering to , every appellation and expression which ...
... reason , and are received without inquiry . One of these , as I apprehend , is the expecting to find , in the present circumstan- ces of Christianity , a meaning for , or something answering to , every appellation and expression which ...
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... reason of the ex- tent of their name and numbers , and the little visible union that subsists among them ; and , partly , because the heathen world with whom they were compared , and to which comparison these phrases relate , is now ...
... reason of the ex- tent of their name and numbers , and the little visible union that subsists among them ; and , partly , because the heathen world with whom they were compared , and to which comparison these phrases relate , is now ...
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... reason and religion sometimes produce in particular Christians : of which interpretation it is truly said , that it degrades too much the proper force of language , to apply expressions of such energy and import to an event so ordinary ...
... reason and religion sometimes produce in particular Christians : of which interpretation it is truly said , that it degrades too much the proper force of language , to apply expressions of such energy and import to an event so ordinary ...
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... reason to hope that any would profit by his instruction who despised his per- son . If St Paul thought an admonition of this sort worthy of a place in his Epistle to Timothy , it cannot surely be deemed either beside or beneath the ...
... reason to hope that any would profit by his instruction who despised his per- son . If St Paul thought an admonition of this sort worthy of a place in his Epistle to Timothy , it cannot surely be deemed either beside or beneath the ...
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Page 205 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 327 - And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Page 93 - Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Page 323 - And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch us he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 241 - Let him that stole steal no more : but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 324 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, 'Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?' 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, 'Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. * For 34 chapter 9: 43 the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 167 - As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are Mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine : the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 147 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 167 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 326 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.