The Works of Soame Jenyns, Volume 4T. Cadell, 1790 |
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... fame ftock , nor planted by the fame hand . To afcertain the true fyftem , and genuine doctrines of this religion , after the undecided controverfies of above seventeen centuries , and to remove all the rubbish , which artifice and ...
... fame ftock , nor planted by the fame hand . To afcertain the true fyftem , and genuine doctrines of this religion , after the undecided controverfies of above seventeen centuries , and to remove all the rubbish , which artifice and ...
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... fame marks of an uniform originality in their very frame and compofition . But all these circumftances I fhall pass over unobferved , as they do not fall in with the course of my argument , nor are neces- fary for the fupport of it ...
... fame marks of an uniform originality in their very frame and compofition . But all these circumftances I fhall pass over unobferved , as they do not fall in with the course of my argument , nor are neces- fary for the fupport of it ...
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... fame reason ; because it is too narrow and confined , and appropriates that benevolence to a single object , which is here commanded to be ex- tended over all . Where friendships arise from fimilarity of fentiments , and difinte- rested ...
... fame reason ; because it is too narrow and confined , and appropriates that benevolence to a single object , which is here commanded to be ex- tended over all . Where friendships arise from fimilarity of fentiments , and difinte- rested ...
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... fame paffions in others . It would also preferve our minds in such a state of tran- quillity , and fo prepare them for the king- dom of heaven , that we should slide out of a life of peace , love , and benevolence , into that celestial ...
... fame paffions in others . It would also preferve our minds in such a state of tran- quillity , and fo prepare them for the king- dom of heaven , that we should slide out of a life of peace , love , and benevolence , into that celestial ...
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... fame paffions and vices , by which they disturb the prefent ; and therefore all fuch must be eternally excluded , not only as a punishment , but alfo from incapacity . Repentance , by this we plainly fee , is another new moral duty ...
... fame paffions and vices , by which they disturb the prefent ; and therefore all fuch must be eternally excluded , not only as a punishment , but alfo from incapacity . Repentance , by this we plainly fee , is another new moral duty ...
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Page 100 - And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables...
Page 25 - Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungred and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger and ye took me in; naked and ye clothed me, I was sick and ye visited me, I was in prison and ye came unto me.
Page 92 - Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: "Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth into life, and few there be that find it."2 The Christian Church wholeheartedly believes this "Divine...
Page 63 - ... is carried to a higher degree of purity and perfection, than in any other of the wisest philosophers of preceding ages ; every moral precept founded on false principles is totally omitted, and many new precepts added, peculiarly corresponding with the new object of this religion.
Page 21 - ... depend on the opinion, which we entertain of the authority of those, who published them to the world ; but certain it is, that they are all so far removed from every tract of the human imagination, that it seems equally impossible, that they should ever have been derived from the knowledge, or the artifice of man.
Page 47 - Charity fufrereth long, and is kind ; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itfelf, is not puffed up, doth not behave itfelf unfeemly, feeketh not her own, is not cafily provoked, thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Page 159 - Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 78 - ... of her followers, that there are no principles at all. How far fuch a guide is to be depended on in the important concerns of religion, and morals, I leave to the judgment of every confiderate man to determine.
Page 38 - Nor is this more incompatible with the precepts, than with the object of this religion, which is the attainment of the kingdom of heaven ; for valour is not that sort of violence by which that kingdom is to be taken, nor are the turbulent spirits of heroes and conquerors admissible into those regions of peace, subordination, and tranquillity.
Page 37 - They are so far from being allowed to inflict evil, that they are forbid even to...