 | 1776 - 586 pages
...For we have power over the mind's eye, as well as over the body's, to ihut it againft the ftrongcll rays of truth and religion, whenever they become painful...darknefs rather than light, becaufe our • deeds are evilf .' And this, I think, fufficiently refutes all objections to the moral nature of faith, drawn... | |
 | 1776 - 772 pages
...we have power over the mind's eye, at well at over the body's, to (hut it againft the Itrongeft rayt of truth and religion, whenever they become painful...darknefs rather than light, becaufe our deeds are evil, •which you think fufficiently refutes all objections to the moral nature of faith, drawn from the... | |
 | Soame Jenyns - 1790 - 310 pages
...fituations and circumftances. For we have power over the mind's eye, as well as over the body's, to fhut it againft the ftrongeft rays of truth and religion,...objections to the moral nature of faith, drawn from the fuppofition of its being quite involuntary, and neceflarily dependent on the degree of evidence, which... | |
 | Soame Jenyns, Charles Nalson Cole - 1793 - 606 pages
...fituations and circumftances. For we have power over the mind's eye, as well as over the body's, to fhut h againft the ftrongeft rays of truth and religion,...objections to the moral nature of faith, drawn from the fuppofition of its being quite involuntary, and neceflarily dependent on the degree of evidence, which... | |
 | Soame Jenyns, Charles Nalson Cole - 1793 - 304 pages
...fituations and circumftances. For we have power over the mind's eye, as well as over the body's, to fliut it againft the ftrongeft rays of truth and religion,...and infidelity when we " love darknefs rather than <c light, becaufe our deeds are evil *." And this, I think, fufficiently refutes all objections to... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - 1796 - 484 pages
...us upon this head:— We are by nature the children cf wrath; — a generation of evil-doers ; — 'we love darknefs rather than light, becaufe our deeds are evil, and will not bear the light; — and the imaginations of our hearts are evil continually; that is, this... | |
 | William Melmoth - 1802 - 326 pages
...circumftances. For we have power over the mind's eye, as well as overthe body's, to fhut it againftthe ftrongeft rays of truth and religion, whenever they...faint glimmerings of fcepticifm and infidelity when we c love darknefs rather than ' light, becufe our deeds are evil.'/ And this, I think, fufficiently refutes... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...9.] We have power over the mind's eye, as well as over the body's, to shut it against the strongest rays of truth and religion, whenever they become painful to us ; and to open it again to the fajnt glimmerings of scepticism and infidelity when we " love darkness rather than light, because our... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1828 - 318 pages
...the eye of the mind, as well as that of the body, to close it against the strongest rays of truth, whenever they become painful to us ; and to open it again to the faint glimmerings of scepticism or infidelity, when we love darkness rather than light, because our deeds are evil. \\ Thus... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 318 pages
...the eye of the mind, as well 'as that of the body, to close it against the strongest rays of truth, whenever they become painful to us ; and to open it again to the faint glimmerings of scepticism or infidelity, when we love darkness rather than light, because our deeds are evil. || Thus... | |
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For we have power over the mind's eye, as well as over the body's to shut it against the strongest rays of truth and religion, whenever they become painful to us ; and to open it again to the faint glimmerings of scepticism and infidelity, when we " love... 
