The Wisdom of Being ReligiousRivington, 1819 - 189 sivua |
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... ment , Religion is usually expressed by faith in God and Christ , and the love of them . Hence it is , that true Christians are so frequently called believers , and wicked and ungodly men unbelievers . And that good men are described to ...
... ment , Religion is usually expressed by faith in God and Christ , and the love of them . Hence it is , that true Christians are so frequently called believers , and wicked and ungodly men unbelievers . And that good men are described to ...
Sivu 41
... antiquity can contend . I shall not now go about to strengthen my argu- ment , by pleading the Divine authority of this book ; for which yet I could offer good evidence , if that were proper to the matter OF BEING RELIGIOUS . 41 History ·
... antiquity can contend . I shall not now go about to strengthen my argu- ment , by pleading the Divine authority of this book ; for which yet I could offer good evidence , if that were proper to the matter OF BEING RELIGIOUS . 41 History ·
Sivu 44
... ment . For if the world , and conse- quently mankind , had a beginning , there is all the reason in the world to expect these two things : First , that there should be an universal tradition concerning this matter ; because it was the ...
... ment . For if the world , and conse- quently mankind , had a beginning , there is all the reason in the world to expect these two things : First , that there should be an universal tradition concerning this matter ; because it was the ...
Sivu 46
... ment of Aristotle himself , that there was anciently such a tradition concerning the beginning of the world . Nay , if we may believe him , he himself was the very first asserter of the eternity of the world ; for he 36 says expressly ...
... ment of Aristotle himself , that there was anciently such a tradition concerning the beginning of the world . Nay , if we may believe him , he himself was the very first asserter of the eternity of the world ; for he 36 says expressly ...
Sivu 77
... ment , it hath been continued to this day , and is like to last to the end of the world . To this fine conjecture I have these four things to say : 1. That all this is mere conjecture and supposition ; he cannot bring the least shadow ...
... ment , it hath been continued to this day , and is like to last to the end of the world . To this fine conjecture I have these four things to say : 1. That all this is mere conjecture and supposition ; he cannot bring the least shadow ...
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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?]