 Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.  The Englishman's fire-side - Page 21Full view - About this book
 | 1823
...which no infidelity could remove it. To use the words of Mr Locke, " The religion of the country had God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its subject and matter." This prosecution was not instituted for the purpose of oppressing any particular... | |
 | 1823
...God. With high pretensions to rationality, he will condemn thai sacred page, which LOCKE declared, ' has GOD for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without the least mixture of error, for its matter.' With the mere rudiments of his mother's language, he will... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 788 pages
...the doctrines of the Christian religion, ' Study the holy scripture, especially the New Testament : Bishop Watson. § 121. A Prayer or Psalm. Most gracious Lord God, my merciful Father ; from my youth... | |
 | John Locke - 1824
...have a short and plain answer : " Let him study the holy " scripture, especially the New Testament." Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It...salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of errour, for its matter. So that it is a wonder to me, how any one professing christianity, that would... | |
 | Englishman - 1824
...of Christianity, he replied, — " Let him study the holy scriptures, especially the New Testament. It has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." His health gradually declined, mid he foresaw his end with calm composure. On the day before he died,... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 272 pages
...a book required or admitted a motto, there could be none chosen more descriptive or appropriate : " Therein are contained the words of eternal life :...Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." The distinction also which he makes between Morality and the worldly term Prudence, is highly judicious,... | |
 | William MALKIN - 1825
...of the Christian religion? says, " Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament; therein are contained the words of eternal life. It...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." Sir William Jones wrote at the end of his Bible, " I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1825 - 239 pages
...extent of it ?" his answer is : " Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." A direction that was copied from his own practice, in the latter part of his life, and after his retirement... | |
 | John Benjamin Seely - 1825 - 597 pages
...convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and the ruling providence of its great Author." — Gibbon. " It has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth without any mixture of error for its matter." — Locke. " Mussulmans are already a sort of heterodox Christians, because they believe firmly the... | |
 | 1825
...to render men virtuous and happy, even in this life only. The Scripture, on the other hand, ' with God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error, for its matter,' it commands with ¡minority, it speaks to the heart and to the understandmg, it reveals the Almighty... | |
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