A View of the Brahminical Religion: In Its Confirmation of the Truth of the Sacred History, and in Its Influence on the Moral Character; in a Series of Discourses, Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1809, at the Lecture Founded by the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury |
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... human conduct . Those venerable characters , " who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost , " exhibit a disposition equally distant from unfeeling bigotry , interested concealment , or ser- vile adulation . Through all their ...
... human conduct . Those venerable characters , " who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost , " exhibit a disposition equally distant from unfeeling bigotry , interested concealment , or ser- vile adulation . Through all their ...
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... human race . The Religion of Christ thus universal in its design and efficacy , fairly and openly asserts this pre - eminence , and its exclusive right to the title of a divine revelation : and though avowedly to- lerant of error ...
... human race . The Religion of Christ thus universal in its design and efficacy , fairly and openly asserts this pre - eminence , and its exclusive right to the title of a divine revelation : and though avowedly to- lerant of error ...
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... human reason contemptible , no less de- monstrates the intervention of divine agency . The command which its divine author gave to his disciples : " Go ye into all the world and preach " the Gospel to every creature , " was so punc ...
... human reason contemptible , no less de- monstrates the intervention of divine agency . The command which its divine author gave to his disciples : " Go ye into all the world and preach " the Gospel to every creature , " was so punc ...
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... which have ultimately contributed to general happiness and prosperity , we have often reason to lament , that they have been effected by means at which venfoAbbé Raynal , humanity revolts . We must be compelled to acknowledge , 17.
... which have ultimately contributed to general happiness and prosperity , we have often reason to lament , that they have been effected by means at which venfoAbbé Raynal , humanity revolts . We must be compelled to acknowledge , 17.
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... humanity revolts . We must be compelled to acknowledge , that the soil in which " the vine and the fig tree " have afterwards flourished in the greatest luxuriancy , has been fertilized by blood . But the voyage of Gama is one of those ...
... humanity revolts . We must be compelled to acknowledge , that the soil in which " the vine and the fig tree " have afterwards flourished in the greatest luxuriancy , has been fertilized by blood . But the voyage of Gama is one of those ...
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Page 182 - And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Page 75 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 165 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 39 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 146 - He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Page 3 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.