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 2Hilliard and Brown, 1830 |
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... religious Assemblies of the early Christians 110 the Scriptures · 112 116 SECT . VI . Commentaries , & c . were ... Religion was founded Formal Catalogues of Authentic Scriptures were published , in all which our present Gospels ...
... religious Assemblies of the early Christians 110 the Scriptures · 112 116 SECT . VI . Commentaries , & c . were ... Religion was founded Formal Catalogues of Authentic Scriptures were published , in all which our present Gospels ...
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... religion and none : for , if the Christian religion be not credible , no one , with whom we have to do , will support the pretensions of any other . Suppose , then , the world we live in to have had a Creator ; suppose it to appear ...
... religion and none : for , if the Christian religion be not credible , no one , with whom we have to do , will support the pretensions of any other . Suppose , then , the world we live in to have had a Creator ; suppose it to appear ...
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... Religion exists , and therefore by some means or other was established . Now it either owes the principle of its establishment , i . e . its first publication , to the activity of the person who was the founder of the institution , and ...
... Religion exists , and therefore by some means or other was established . Now it either owes the principle of its establishment , i . e . its first publication , to the activity of the person who was the founder of the institution , and ...
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... religious persons upon religion , a sequestration from the com- mon pleasures , engagements and varieties of life , and an ad- diction to one serious object , compose the habits of such men . I do not say that this mode of life is ...
... religious persons upon religion , a sequestration from the com- mon pleasures , engagements and varieties of life , and an ad- diction to one serious object , compose the habits of such men . I do not say that this mode of life is ...
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... religion . That is a fact which will not be dispu- ted . They , therefore , who stood forth to preach the religion , must necessarily reproach these rulers with an execution , which they could not but represent as unjust and cruel mur ...
... religion . That is a fact which will not be dispu- ted . They , therefore , who stood forth to preach the religion , must necessarily reproach these rulers with an execution , which they could not but represent as unjust and cruel mur ...
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Page 200 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 213 - Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. Why askest thou me ? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
Page 209 - And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see ; and that they which see might be made blind.
Page 31 - Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you : and ye shall be hated of all nations for ^my name's sake.
Page 287 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 206 - But he answered and said unto him that told him, " Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister and mother.
Page 47 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace ; and labour, working with our own hands...
Page 249 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Page 63 - It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus...
Page 207 - How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?