An Account of Reason and Faith: In Relation to the Mysteries of Christianity. By John Norris, ...Edmund Parker, 1740 - 236 pages |
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... Power of the Evangelic Spirit , by Apoftatizing from the Purity and Perfection of both Chriftian Faith and Life ( which we have already feen come to pafs ) but shall even lay down their Holy Profeffion , renounce their very Faith and ...
... Power of the Evangelic Spirit , by Apoftatizing from the Purity and Perfection of both Chriftian Faith and Life ( which we have already feen come to pafs ) but shall even lay down their Holy Profeffion , renounce their very Faith and ...
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... power of their cruel Emperors . Can it be expected that these Men fhould embrace a Religion which they fee thus continually deferted by its own Disciples ! Or rather inftead of converting themselves to Christianity will they not look ...
... power of their cruel Emperors . Can it be expected that these Men fhould embrace a Religion which they fee thus continually deferted by its own Disciples ! Or rather inftead of converting themselves to Christianity will they not look ...
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... Powers of Earth , and even from the Gates of Hell . And that tho ' now he seems to be asleep in this Sacred Veffel while the Tempeft rages , and the Waves beat against it , and almoft cover it , yet ' tis to bę hoped he will awake , and ...
... Powers of Earth , and even from the Gates of Hell . And that tho ' now he seems to be asleep in this Sacred Veffel while the Tempeft rages , and the Waves beat against it , and almoft cover it , yet ' tis to bę hoped he will awake , and ...
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... Power and Greatness , or carry out too far those of their own understandings ; in one word , that either they Humanize God , B 4 In the Preface to his Metaphyfical Meditations . or or Deify themselves and their own Rational Abilities ...
... Power and Greatness , or carry out too far those of their own understandings ; in one word , that either they Humanize God , B 4 In the Preface to his Metaphyfical Meditations . or or Deify themselves and their own Rational Abilities ...
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... Power or Faculty of Reasoning . For the A & t ; as when we fay of a Man afleep , that he is depriv'd of his Reafon . For the Habit ; as when we fay of a Man , that he has loft his Reason , when his Intel- lectuals are mightily disorder ...
... Power or Faculty of Reasoning . For the A & t ; as when we fay of a Man afleep , that he is depriv'd of his Reafon . For the Habit ; as when we fay of a Man , that he has loft his Reason , when his Intel- lectuals are mightily disorder ...
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Page 200 - But when a thing is proposed to me as from God, all that my Reason has to do in this case is seriously, soberly, diligently, impartially, and, I add, humbly to examine whether it comes with the true Credentials of His authority, and has Him for its real author or no. This is all that Reason has to do in this matter, and when she has done this, she is to rise from the seat of judgment, and...
Page 218 - God himftlf, and many .of them concerning himfclf and his own infinite perfections ? And what deference do we pay to God more than man, if either we fuppofe that he cannot reveal truths to us which we cannot comprehend...
Page 222 - ... be driven to fay that you comprehend the nature of God, which I hope you have too much religion as well as reafon to affirm. 10. And indeed if we meet with fo many infuperable difficulties in the fearch of nature, much more may we in the comtemplation of its author; if the works of God do fo puzzle and baffle our understandings, much more may they confefs their deficiency when God himfelf is their...
Page 66 - ... 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he fhould after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 215 - Senfe and Congruity of Reafon in pretending to be a God in Heaven than to be a God upon Earth) I fay befides this, I would put it to your more fober thought to confider whether it be not every whit as great an Extremity in the way of rational...
Page 2 - God fpared not the natural branches, take heed left he alfo fpare not thee. Behold therefore the goodnefs and feverity of God, on them which fell, feverity ; but towards thee, goodnefs, if thou continue in his goodnefs ; otherwife, thou alfo fhalt be cut off. And they alfo, if they abide not ftill in unbelief, fhall be graffed in ; for God is able to graft...
Page 2 - Gentile, ** the branches were broken off," the children of Ifrael were rejected from being the people of God, " that I might be graffed in. " Well; becaufe of unbelief they were broken " off, and thou ftandeft by faith. BE NOT ** HIGH-MINDED, BUT FEAR. For if God " fpared not the natural branches, take heed leji