The infidel's own book, a statement of some of the absurdities resulting from the rejection of ChristianityHamilton, Adams, 1834 - 200 páginas |
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... virtue , it would , by necessity , be a thing only to be scorned and abhorred . Can any thing , then , be more absurd , than the proposal that we should abandon our faith ? The only plan which the infidel can adopt , with the slightest ...
... virtue , it would , by necessity , be a thing only to be scorned and abhorred . Can any thing , then , be more absurd , than the proposal that we should abandon our faith ? The only plan which the infidel can adopt , with the slightest ...
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... virtue , no matter how small ; if it supplies any substantial happi- ness , however transitory : if it sheds the light of a pure hope on the path of life , though it be but as the glow - worm's " ineffectual fire , " - so far it ...
... virtue , no matter how small ; if it supplies any substantial happi- ness , however transitory : if it sheds the light of a pure hope on the path of life , though it be but as the glow - worm's " ineffectual fire , " - so far it ...
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... virtues by which human nature can be adorned ; while around the group is ringing the untrembling music of immortal hope . On the other hand , the pure beauty of truth smiles on uncleanness , treason , and murder ; and is accompanied by ...
... virtues by which human nature can be adorned ; while around the group is ringing the untrembling music of immortal hope . On the other hand , the pure beauty of truth smiles on uncleanness , treason , and murder ; and is accompanied by ...
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... virtue.3 To the illustration of these and similar absur- dities , the succeeding pages will be devoted . 1. See chap . iii . - 2 . See chap . iv . - 3 . See chap . v . B 1 The practical character of scepticism will first be considered ...
... virtue.3 To the illustration of these and similar absur- dities , the succeeding pages will be devoted . 1. See chap . iii . - 2 . See chap . iv . - 3 . See chap . v . B 1 The practical character of scepticism will first be considered ...
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... virtue and benevolence . To give full proof of its worth , suppose its agency to have been applied to persons whose characters were most alien from its principles , -the envious , dis- contented , and selfish ; -men personally unhappy ...
... virtue and benevolence . To give full proof of its worth , suppose its agency to have been applied to persons whose characters were most alien from its principles , -the envious , dis- contented , and selfish ; -men personally unhappy ...
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Página 152 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 151 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; and labour, working with our own hands : being reviled, we bless : being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed, we entreat : we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Página 200 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Página 194 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Página 200 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Página 200 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Página 151 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one." " Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice J suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep.
Página 61 - As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, "so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, 'Am not I in sport?
Página 60 - Though I throw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet, in other things, I do not think so differently from the rest of mankind as you may imagine.