The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation Shewn from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World: Especially with Respect to the Knowledge and Worship of the One True God : a Rule of Moral Duty : and a State of Future Rewards and Punishments. To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Discourse on Natural and Revealed Religion, Volumen2The University Press, 1819 |
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... person and govern- ment , and to advance and secure the true glory and prosperity of your people . When a king who has no earthly superior , pre- serves a just sense of his own subjection to the King of kings , and whilst he receives ...
... person and govern- ment , and to advance and secure the true glory and prosperity of your people . When a king who has no earthly superior , pre- serves a just sense of his own subjection to the King of kings , and whilst he receives ...
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... persons , † to whose judgment and authority I owe great deference , urged me sometime ago to re- view the books I had written , and out of them to form a treatise in which the arguments in favour of Revelation might be digested into a ...
... persons , † to whose judgment and authority I owe great deference , urged me sometime ago to re- view the books I had written , and out of them to form a treatise in which the arguments in favour of Revelation might be digested into a ...
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... persons that made the highest pretensions to learning and philosophy . This inquiry cost me a laborious search . For though this sub- ject has been treated of by others , and I have endeavoured to profit by their labours , yet I did not ...
... persons that made the highest pretensions to learning and philosophy . This inquiry cost me a laborious search . For though this sub- ject has been treated of by others , and I have endeavoured to profit by their labours , yet I did not ...
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... persons , for whose learning and judg- ment I have a great regard . And though I am not conscious to myself of having made any wilful misrepresentations of things , yet it is very probable that , in the course of so long a work , I have ...
... persons , for whose learning and judg- ment I have a great regard . And though I am not conscious to myself of having made any wilful misrepresentations of things , yet it is very probable that , in the course of so long a work , I have ...
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... persons of strong reason and extraordinary judgment and sagacity , were capable , by the mere force of their own reason and studious researches , to make out for themselves a system of religion and morals , in all its main principles ...
... persons of strong reason and extraordinary judgment and sagacity , were capable , by the mere force of their own reason and studious researches , to make out for themselves a system of religion and morals , in all its main principles ...
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Página 360 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Página 272 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Página 323 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 360 - ... and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Página 210 - What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light : and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Página 264 - Sit igitur hoc iam a principio persuasum civibus, dominos esse omnium rerum ac moderatores deos, eaque, quae gerantur, eorum geri iudicio ac numine, eosdemque optime de genere hominum mereri et, qualis quisque sit, quid agat, quid in se admittat, qua mente, qua pietate colat religiones, intueri piorumque et impiorum habere rationem ; 16 his enim rebus inbutae mentes haud sane abhorrebunt ab utili aut a vera sententia.
Página 333 - Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Página 325 - I perceive, that God is no respecter of persons ; but in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Página 87 - God, and could not out of the good " things that are seen know him that is : neither by consider" ing the works did they acknowledge the workmaster ; but " deemed either fire or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of " the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to " be the gods which govern the world.
Página 154 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves...