The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicaradvocates of common sense., 1832 - 384 pages |
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... no tendency to make us either wiser or better , or which is much worse , had a manifest tendency to make us wicked and immoral . And this belief , this impious belief , aris- ing from imposition on one side , and from want 16 INTRODUCTION .
... no tendency to make us either wiser or better , or which is much worse , had a manifest tendency to make us wicked and immoral . And this belief , this impious belief , aris- ing from imposition on one side , and from want 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... imposition on one side , and from want of examination on the other , has been called by the sacred name of religion , whereas real and genuine religion consists in knowledge and obedience . We know there is a God , and know his will ...
... imposition on one side , and from want of examination on the other , has been called by the sacred name of religion , whereas real and genuine religion consists in knowledge and obedience . We know there is a God , and know his will ...
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... imposition stamped upon the face of it . Who were the authors of it is as impossible for us now to know , as it is for us to be assured , that the books in which the account is related , were writ- ten by the persons whose names they ...
... imposition stamped upon the face of it . Who were the authors of it is as impossible for us now to know , as it is for us to be assured , that the books in which the account is related , were writ- ten by the persons whose names they ...
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... or ever will exist ; and that every thing else , called the word of God , is fable and imposition . | It is owing to this long interregnum of science 5 * THE AGE OF REASON . 53 lieving that the Creator made no other world than this...
... or ever will exist ; and that every thing else , called the word of God , is fable and imposition . | It is owing to this long interregnum of science 5 * THE AGE OF REASON . 53 lieving that the Creator made no other world than this...
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... imposition may have been , is the most inconsistent . For , in the first place , whenever recourse is had to show , for the purpose of procuring that belief , ( for a miracle , under any idea of the word , is a show ) it implies a ...
... imposition may have been , is the most inconsistent . For , in the first place , whenever recourse is had to show , for the purpose of procuring that belief , ( for a miracle , under any idea of the word , is a show ) it implies a ...
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Page 106 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 208 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 301 - And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech : and it came to pass, as they journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there.
Page 211 - Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, saying, Where is He that is born King of the Jews ? for we have seen his star in the East, and are come to worship Him.
Page 222 - In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.
Page 240 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Page 314 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 162 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep, And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light ; and there was light.
Page 139 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 222 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I have sinned, in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.