Some thoughts concerning religion, natural and revealedH. Woodfall, 1735 - 107 pages |
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... things ; he can perceive the beauty , the order , the harmony of the creation ; he can , in the creatures , fee the power , the wifdom , and the goodness of the Creator ; he finds in himself an unfatiable thirst after fomewhat that has ...
... things ; he can perceive the beauty , the order , the harmony of the creation ; he can , in the creatures , fee the power , the wifdom , and the goodness of the Creator ; he finds in himself an unfatiable thirst after fomewhat that has ...
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... things concerning the Deity , and man's ftate , are true , and of abfolute neceffity to be known to man , for his ... thing as right and wrong , may , and must be known , without revelation . 2. That right must be attended with reward ...
... things concerning the Deity , and man's ftate , are true , and of abfolute neceffity to be known to man , for his ... thing as right and wrong , may , and must be known , without revelation . 2. That right must be attended with reward ...
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... thing more firmly , than the vulgar do that the Earth stands ftill , and that the Sun moves round ; a belief as general , and as abfolute , of the tacts revealed for the comfort and Lalvation B & falvation of mankind , would produce a ...
... thing more firmly , than the vulgar do that the Earth stands ftill , and that the Sun moves round ; a belief as general , and as abfolute , of the tacts revealed for the comfort and Lalvation B & falvation of mankind , would produce a ...
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... things were true , and capable of demonftration , the vulgar would believe , not because of the demonftration , which they have not leifure , or learning , or capacity to enter into , but because of the fix- ed opinions of others , from ...
... things were true , and capable of demonftration , the vulgar would believe , not because of the demonftration , which they have not leifure , or learning , or capacity to enter into , but because of the fix- ed opinions of others , from ...
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... thing could be more abfurd : but still they continued with the great- eft zeal to make use of sacrifice , to believe it a mean of atoning for fins , of averting punishments , of procuring favours from the Deity ; they thought Sacrifices ...
... thing could be more abfurd : but still they continued with the great- eft zeal to make use of sacrifice , to believe it a mean of atoning for fins , of averting punishments , of procuring favours from the Deity ; they thought Sacrifices ...
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Page 89 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Page 88 - And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Page 36 - He cured the most inveterate diseases; he made the lame to walk ; he opened the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf; he...
Page 27 - Could this have been done by human forefight or force ? Has any thing like to it ever been in the world befides? What could tend more to perpetuate the memory of any event, than to deliver a whole People, by...
Page 58 - In that strange book, which he has written in this delirium against Tindal, and which I have quoted somewhere, he says very rationally, " that we ought to be amazed at the impudence of those who pretend to decide what God is or is not, and what he can or can not do, from the notions they have framed to themselves of his attributes, his nature and perfection.
Page 76 - I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the Angel' of the covenant, whom ye delight in : behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 76 - Mcjjengei) of the Covenant, is declared to be the Lord; and the Lord whom ye feek, {hall fuddenly come to his temple : even the Angel of the Covenant, -whom ye delight in.
Page 26 - God's house, and some cities with suburbs, dispersed amongst other tribes. 2. Not only were the descendants of each tribe to enjoy, in exclusion of other tribes, their own lot, but the particular fields and parcels, within each tribe, were to remain for ever with the respective families that first possessed them, and on failure of the...
Page 28 - Or could a Book of the LAW have been forged, if there was none precedent, and put upon the People, as a book that had been delivered to the...
Page 96 - Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations, have made, and will again make, good poetry. But as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of any thing " in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.