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... Society of old Age ......... Hewlett . 175 The mere Profession of Christianity not suffi- cient .. ........ Anonymous . 177 The Invisibility of God no Argument against his Existence ..... Paley . 178 Wealth not productive of a ...
... Society of old Age ......... Hewlett . 175 The mere Profession of Christianity not suffi- cient .. ........ Anonymous . 177 The Invisibility of God no Argument against his Existence ..... Paley . 178 Wealth not productive of a ...
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... Society of old Age ... Hewlett . 175 The mere Profession of Christianity not suffi- cient ...... Anonymous . 177 The Invisibility of God no Argument against his Existence ..... Paley . 178 Wealth not productive of a proportionate Degree ...
... Society of old Age ... Hewlett . 175 The mere Profession of Christianity not suffi- cient ...... Anonymous . 177 The Invisibility of God no Argument against his Existence ..... Paley . 178 Wealth not productive of a proportionate Degree ...
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... society , yea , even of a family ; what wis- dom then is not needful to him who undertakes the government of the world ! What wisdom must he not possess who maintains the good government thereof , uninterrupted and uncon- trolled ! What ...
... society , yea , even of a family ; what wis- dom then is not needful to him who undertakes the government of the world ! What wisdom must he not possess who maintains the good government thereof , uninterrupted and uncon- trolled ! What ...
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... society - and you are then to say , whether a religion of such a kind can have only a mortal origin ; whether there is any thing in the history of human nature at that age which in any degree corresponds to such a fact ; and whether ...
... society - and you are then to say , whether a religion of such a kind can have only a mortal origin ; whether there is any thing in the history of human nature at that age which in any degree corresponds to such a fact ; and whether ...
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... society , or the prosperity of the world . When you look over the history of religion , -when you examine the nature of the systems of religious belief that have existed before the era of the Gospel , or which have arisen since , -you ...
... society , or the prosperity of the world . When you look over the history of religion , -when you examine the nature of the systems of religious belief that have existed before the era of the Gospel , or which have arisen since , -you ...
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Page 147 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 103 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Page 73 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Page 148 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 34 - I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Page 75 - ... meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go farthest from the superstition formerly received...
Page 223 - He was fresh and vigorous with rest ; he was animated with hope ; he was incited by desire; he walked swiftly forward over the valleys, and saw the hills gradually rising before fiim. As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise...
Page 226 - At length, not fear, but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude....
Page 149 - ... so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To...
Page 148 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.