Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Arthur Collier ... with Some Account of His Family

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E. Lumley, 1837 - 215 sivua
 

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Sivu 182 - I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Sivu 188 - To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Sivu 15 - This, though not so certain as demonstration, yet may be called knowledge, and proves the existence of things without us. — The notice we have by our senses of the existing of things without us, though it be not altogether so certain as our intuitive knowledge, or the deductions of our reason, employed about the clear abstract ideas of our own minds; yet it is an assurance that deserves the name of knowledge. If we persuade ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right, concerning the existence...
Sivu 67 - They that speak most favourably look upon him as crazed, and little better than a madman. This is the poor man's character ; and, low as he is, they cannot be content to leave him quiet in his poverty. Whereas had he not been early possessed with a passionate love for the scripture and philosophy, — had he not thought it his duty above all things to promote the glory of God, and been persuaded that could no way be so well done as by the study of his word and works, — it is more than probable...
Sivu 172 - Therefore the apostle well observes, "that he was declared to be the Son of God with power, by his resurrection from the dead.
Sivu 19 - Clavis Universalis; or a new Inquiry after Truth: being a demonstration of the non-existence or impossibility of an external world.
Sivu 64 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
Sivu 187 - Seeing then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Sivu xv - In these days the depths of that old learning are rarely fathomed : and yet it were happy for these lands, if our young nobility and gentry instead of modern maxims would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in...
Sivu 53 - This college will always retain a grateful sense of his generosity and merits; and, probably, a favourable opinion of his idea of material substance, as not consisting in an unknown and inconceivable stratum, but in a stated union and combination of sensible ideas, excited from without by some intelligent being.

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