The Wisdom of Being ReligiousRivington, 1819 - 189 sivua |
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Sivu vii
... likewise favour the beginning of the world , viz . The want of any history or tradition more ancient than what is consistent with the received opinion of the time of the world's beginning . The account which we have of the original of ...
... likewise favour the beginning of the world , viz . The want of any history or tradition more ancient than what is consistent with the received opinion of the time of the world's beginning . The account which we have of the original of ...
Sivu x
... likewise guilty of prodigious folly CHAP . IV . 113 RELIGION VINDICATED FROM THOSE COMMON IM- PUTATIONS WHICH SEEM TO CHARGE IT WITH IGNORANCE OR IMPRUDENCE . § I. The imputation of Credulity , or believing those things for which we ...
... likewise guilty of prodigious folly CHAP . IV . 113 RELIGION VINDICATED FROM THOSE COMMON IM- PUTATIONS WHICH SEEM TO CHARGE IT WITH IGNORANCE OR IMPRUDENCE . § I. The imputation of Credulity , or believing those things for which we ...
Sivu 3
... likewise " the fear of the Lord , " and " departure from evil , " are phrases of a very near sense , and like import- ance ; and therefore we find them several times put together in Scripture : " Fear the Lord , and depart from evil ...
... likewise " the fear of the Lord , " and " departure from evil , " are phrases of a very near sense , and like import- ance ; and therefore we find them several times put together in Scripture : " Fear the Lord , and depart from evil ...
Sivu 5
... likewise , by the " fear of the Lord , " frequently in this Book of Job , and in the Psalms and Proverbs . And , " Then they that feared the Lord , spake often one to another . " And " the fear of God " is expressly said to be the sum ...
... likewise , by the " fear of the Lord , " frequently in this Book of Job , and in the Psalms and Proverbs . And , " Then they that feared the Lord , spake often one to another . " And " the fear of God " is expressly said to be the sum ...
Sivu 6
... likewise by " the remembrance of God : " " Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth ; " that is , enter upon a religious course betimes . And on the contrary , the character of the wicked is , that they forget God : " The wicked ...
... likewise by " the remembrance of God : " " Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth ; " that is , enter upon a religious course betimes . And on the contrary , the character of the wicked is , that they forget God : " The wicked ...
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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?]