The Works of Soame Jenyns ...: To which are Prefixed Short Sketches of the ... Author's Family, and Also of His Life, Volumes 3-4T. Cadell, 1793 |
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... moft formidable nature , as that it makes God the cause of all wickedness , destroys free - will in man , and confequently roots up the foundation of all virtue and morality whatever ; and it is , moreover , charged with inconfiftency ...
... moft formidable nature , as that it makes God the cause of all wickedness , destroys free - will in man , and confequently roots up the foundation of all virtue and morality whatever ; and it is , moreover , charged with inconfiftency ...
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... moft abstruse doctrines of the chriftian revelation , of ori- ginal fin , grace , predeftination , and vica- rious punishment , might be rendered recon- cileable to the ftricteft reafon ; a propofal from whence furely much advantage ...
... moft abstruse doctrines of the chriftian revelation , of ori- ginal fin , grace , predeftination , and vica- rious punishment , might be rendered recon- cileable to the ftricteft reafon ; a propofal from whence furely much advantage ...
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... moft fuccefsfully affaulted , but alfo to obviate all thofe doubts and difficulties which frequent- ly occur to the minds of thinking men , though no infidels , on viewing the deplora- ble state in which all human religion has continued ...
... moft fuccefsfully affaulted , but alfo to obviate all thofe doubts and difficulties which frequent- ly occur to the minds of thinking men , though no infidels , on viewing the deplora- ble state in which all human religion has continued ...
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... moft firm and immoveable bafis . " To find out therefore how evil of any kind can be the production of infinite good- nefs , joined with infinite power , fhould be the first step in all our religious inquiries ; the examination into ...
... moft firm and immoveable bafis . " To find out therefore how evil of any kind can be the production of infinite good- nefs , joined with infinite power , fhould be the first step in all our religious inquiries ; the examination into ...
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... moft remarkable inftance of the divine wisdom , that whereas in all animals , whose individuals rife little above the reft of their species , knowledge is inftinctive ; in man , whofe individuals are fo widely dif ferent , it is ...
... moft remarkable inftance of the divine wisdom , that whereas in all animals , whose individuals rife little above the reft of their species , knowledge is inftinctive ; in man , whofe individuals are fo widely dif ferent , it is ...
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Page 29 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
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 230 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 266 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Page 45 - But I fay unto you, Love your enemies, blefs them that curfe you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which defpitefully ufe you, and perfecute you...
Page 53 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 194 - ... pretence of feeding, and drag him from his native element by a hook fixed to and tearing out his entrails : and, to add to all this, they...
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 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 49 - ... insensibility which can enable them to endure the miseries of the one and the fatigues of the other. It is a cordial administered by the gracious hand of providence, of which they ought never to be deprived by an ill-judged and improper education.