The Truth and Excellence of the Christian Religion Exhibited: In Two Parts. Part I. Containing Sketches of the Lives of Eminent Laymen, who Have Written in Defence of the Christian Religion. Part II. Containing Extracts from Their WritingsDavid Carlisle, 1804 - 384 páginas |
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... Shall the unfpeakable joys of Heaven be conferred on me ! O mighty finner , never , but through this infinite love and fatisfaction . O never , but by the purchase of thy blood ! " 1 fhall now die , ( faid he , three or four days before ...
... Shall the unfpeakable joys of Heaven be conferred on me ! O mighty finner , never , but through this infinite love and fatisfaction . O never , but by the purchase of thy blood ! " 1 fhall now die , ( faid he , three or four days before ...
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... final morality , by which each effort of fenfation or fcience , in the various gra- dations of life , must be efteemed defective until it shall have attained to its correfponding moral confumma- tion . It 124 EXCELLENCE OF THE.
... final morality , by which each effort of fenfation or fcience , in the various gra- dations of life , must be efteemed defective until it shall have attained to its correfponding moral confumma- tion . It 124 EXCELLENCE OF THE.
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... shall be my confeffor . When I first fat out in the world I had friends , who en- deavoured to shake my belief in the chriftian religion . I faw the difficulties which ftaggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction . The evidences ...
... shall be my confeffor . When I first fat out in the world I had friends , who en- deavoured to shake my belief in the chriftian religion . I faw the difficulties which ftaggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction . The evidences ...
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... shall diminish or augment . I fhall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other caufe , if I can be numbered among the writers , who have given ardour to virtue , and confidence to truth : " " Celestial powers ...
... shall diminish or augment . I fhall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other caufe , if I can be numbered among the writers , who have given ardour to virtue , and confidence to truth : " " Celestial powers ...
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... shall be humanized , and , by gradual civilization , be prepared for the reception of facred truths . If this be the flate of fome parts of the world at this day , and if this intellectual darkness was antiently ftill more prevalent ...
... shall be humanized , and , by gradual civilization , be prepared for the reception of facred truths . If this be the flate of fome parts of the world at this day , and if this intellectual darkness was antiently ftill more prevalent ...
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Página 48 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 312 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Página 103 - Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it. Yet it is reasonable to believe that Addison's professions and practice were at no great variance, since, amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was passed, though his station made him conspicuous and his activity made him formidable, the character given him by his friends was never contradicted by his enemies : of...
Página 363 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Página 45 - ... esteem of posterity; of which he will not easily be deprived while learning shall have any reverence among men; for there is no science in which he does not discover some skill, and scarce any kind of knowledge, profane or sacred, abstruse, or elegant, which he does not appear to have cultivated with...
Página 67 - 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.
Página 105 - He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character " above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Página 21 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Página 316 - Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the gospel, which has brought life and immortality to light. The precepts of Epicurus, who teaches us to endure what the laws of the universe make necessary, may silence, but not content us.
Página 35 - ... his humanity, courtesy and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.