The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Polytheism and monotheism

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1892

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Page 260 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 408 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils : ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Page 408 - For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died ? 12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
Page 58 - The law of causation, the recognition of which is the main pillar of inductive philosophy, is but the familiar truth, that invariability of succession is found by observation to obtain between every fact in nature and some other fact which has preceded it.
Page 125 - I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary.
Page 45 - ... but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 272 - He through whom the sky is bright and the earth firm ; He through whom the heaven was established, nay, the highest heaven ; He who measured out the light in the air : who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice...
Page 128 - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 365 - Oh, my love, when shall I embrace you? Have you no pity on me in the torments that I suffer? Alas, alas, my love, my beauty, my life! instead of healing my pain, you take pleasure in it. Come, let me embrace you, and die in your sacred arms.
Page 272 - He over whom the rising sun shines forth; — Who is the god to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?

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