A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of Thomas Paine, and Wavering Christians of Every Persuasion. With an Appendix Containing the Author's Determination to Have Relinquished His Charge in the Established Church, and the Reasons on which that Determination was FoundedT. Conder, 1803 - 351 páginas |
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... Gospel ; why then must the Gospel be called upon to account for them , rather than any other Religion , or sect of philosophy ? If there never had been an Old Testament , never a New one , mankind would have been at least as corrupt and ...
... Gospel ; why then must the Gospel be called upon to account for them , rather than any other Religion , or sect of philosophy ? If there never had been an Old Testament , never a New one , mankind would have been at least as corrupt and ...
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... Gospel is by no means owing to the prejudices of education ( though I was religiously educated sired me , upon my making a short excursion , to take him with me in my carriage . Our conversation was rather desultory , as is usual upon ...
... Gospel is by no means owing to the prejudices of education ( though I was religiously educated sired me , upon my making a short excursion , to take him with me in my carriage . Our conversation was rather desultory , as is usual upon ...
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... Gospel . Bred as he was to the consideration of evidence , he declared he considered the prophecy concerning the destruction of the Jewish nation , if there was nothing else to support Christianity , absolutely irre- sistible . The ...
... Gospel . Bred as he was to the consideration of evidence , he declared he considered the prophecy concerning the destruction of the Jewish nation , if there was nothing else to support Christianity , absolutely irre- sistible . The ...
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... Gospel to any purpose , it must be the Gospel alone , independent of every human mixture and addition . Cor- rupt churches and bad men cannot be defended . The best part of the book , in the opinion of the author , is that where he has ...
... Gospel to any purpose , it must be the Gospel alone , independent of every human mixture and addition . Cor- rupt churches and bad men cannot be defended . The best part of the book , in the opinion of the author , is that where he has ...
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... Gospel , contains not only a complete , but a very plain system of religion . The Gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the " strictest morality , of justice , of benevolence , and of universal cha- " rity . " 66 These are ...
... Gospel , contains not only a complete , but a very plain system of religion . The Gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the " strictest morality , of justice , of benevolence , and of universal cha- " rity . " 66 These are ...
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Página 64 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Página 236 - To die, to sleep : To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Página 63 - Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith...
Página 132 - And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men : but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Página 228 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.
Página 143 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Página 143 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Página 177 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 132 - And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided ; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.
Página 227 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.