The Wisdom of Being ReligiousRivington, 1819 - 189 sivua |
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Sivu 4
... endeavour to shew these two things : I. That it is very usual in the lan- guage of Scripture to express the whole of Religion by these and such like phrases . II . The particular fitness of these two phrases to describe Religion . § I ...
... endeavour to shew these two things : I. That it is very usual in the lan- guage of Scripture to express the whole of Religion by these and such like phrases . II . The particular fitness of these two phrases to describe Religion . § I ...
Sivu 11
... , if we consider the necessary connexion that is between the negative and positive part of our duty . He that is careful to avoid all sin , will sincerely endeavour to per- form his duty . For the soul of man is OF BEING RELIGIOUS . 11.
... , if we consider the necessary connexion that is between the negative and positive part of our duty . He that is careful to avoid all sin , will sincerely endeavour to per- form his duty . For the soul of man is OF BEING RELIGIOUS . 11.
Sivu 13
... thus explained the words , I come now to consider the proposition contained in them , which is this : That RELIGION IS THE BEST KNOW- LEDGE AND WISDOM . This I shall endeavour to make good these three ways OF BEING RELIGIOUS . 13.
... thus explained the words , I come now to consider the proposition contained in them , which is this : That RELIGION IS THE BEST KNOW- LEDGE AND WISDOM . This I shall endeavour to make good these three ways OF BEING RELIGIOUS . 13.
Sivu 14
John Tillotson. This I shall endeavour to make good these three ways : By a direct proof of it . By shewing , on the contrary , the folly and ignorance of Irreligion and Wickedness . And by vindicating Religion from those common ...
John Tillotson. This I shall endeavour to make good these three ways : By a direct proof of it . By shewing , on the contrary , the folly and ignorance of Irreligion and Wickedness . And by vindicating Religion from those common ...
Sivu 15
... ; ) therefore I shall endeavour distinctly to prove these two things : I. That RELIGION IS THE BEST KNOWLEDGE . II . That IT IS THE TRUEST WISDOM . § I. That RELIGION IS THE BEST KNOWLEDGE . The OF BEING RELIGIOUS . 15.
... ; ) therefore I shall endeavour distinctly to prove these two things : I. That RELIGION IS THE BEST KNOWLEDGE . II . That IT IS THE TRUEST WISDOM . § I. That RELIGION IS THE BEST KNOWLEDGE . The OF BEING RELIGIOUS . 15.
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ages ancient apprehension arguments Aristotle assurance believe BEST KNOWLEDGE Bishop of Salisbury Book of Job book of Proverbs cause chance Christ conceive conse consider contrary contrived creatures credible danger Deity demonstration deny departing from evil deride difficulties Diodorus Siculus discourse Divine duty earth endeavour Ennius Epicurean eternity evidence excellent express the whole fair proofs fections folly frame gion give greatest happen happiness hath heaven holy imagined immortal impiety intelligent principle interest kind ledge ligion likewise live Lucretius lusts man's mankind matter Maximus Tyrius ment metonymy mind misery Moses nature never notion opinion perfections phrases pretence of proof pretend principles of Religion profane prove reason Reli religious scoffers Scripture Secondly sense Septuagint shew side sort soul Speculative Atheism spirit Strabo supposed supposition temporal testimony thing is capable thou tion tradition concerning true tural understanding universal deluge universal tradition unreasonable wicked wise
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Sivu 2 - When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; And to depart from evil is understanding.
Sivu 150 - Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Sivu 63 - ... happen to make the exact picture of a man ? And is a man easier made by chance than his picture? How long might twenty thousand blind men, which should be sent out from the several remote parts of England, wander up and down before they would all meet upon Salisbury Plains, and fall into rank and file in the exact order of an army? And yet this is much more easy to be imagined, than how the innumerable blind parts of matter should rendezvous themselves into a world.
Sivu 149 - I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance ; that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Sivu 110 - How sadly will the man be disappointed when he finds all things otherwise than he had stated and determined them in this world ! When he comes to appear before that God whom he hath denied, and against whom he...
Sivu 23 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Sivu 150 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Sivu 62 - I appeal to any man of reason whether any thing can be more unreasonable than obstinately to impute an effect to chance, which 'carries in the very face of it all the arguments and characters of a wise design and contrivance.
Sivu 23 - Christ, and of his duty, all this would be but an impertinent vanity, and a more glittering kind of ignorance...
Sivu 106 - I think the world was made FOR one, And men are born FOR kings, as beasts FOR men ?" [ie Shall I think that one man was the Cause why the world was made ; that kings are the Cause why men were born ; as men are the Cause why there are beasts?]