The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation |
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... Free- thinker ? It is not only a clear point , that a Christian breaks through ftronger engage- ments , whenever he furrenders himself to commit a criminal action , and is ftung with a fharper remorfe after it , than a Freethinker ; but ...
... Free- thinker ? It is not only a clear point , that a Christian breaks through ftronger engage- ments , whenever he furrenders himself to commit a criminal action , and is ftung with a fharper remorfe after it , than a Freethinker ; but ...
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... Free- thinker . 6 Though there be that are called Gods , ' yet to us there is but one God . He ' made the heaven and heaven of hea- vens , with all their hoft ; the earth and ' all things that are therein ; the feas and all that is ...
... Free- thinker . 6 Though there be that are called Gods , ' yet to us there is but one God . He ' made the heaven and heaven of hea- vens , with all their hoft ; the earth and ' all things that are therein ; the feas and all that is ...
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... Freethinker could have the forehead or folly to turn into ri- dicule . The light , in which these points should be exposed to the view of one who is preju- diced against the names , Religion , Church , Priest , and the like , is to ...
... Freethinker could have the forehead or folly to turn into ri- dicule . The light , in which these points should be exposed to the view of one who is preju- diced against the names , Religion , Church , Priest , and the like , is to ...
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... FREETHINKERS . SIR , THERE arrived in this neighbourhood two days ago one of your gay gentle- ' men of the town ... Freethinker , he should have gueffed , 6 by his way of talking , he was little bet- ' ter than a Heathen ; excepting ...
... FREETHINKERS . SIR , THERE arrived in this neighbourhood two days ago one of your gay gentle- ' men of the town ... Freethinker , he should have gueffed , 6 by his way of talking , he was little bet- ' ter than a Heathen ; excepting ...
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... Free- thinker stands for : but it were much to ⚫ be wished , that they , who valued them- felves upon that conceited title ... Freethinker in any tolerable sense , merely by virtue of his being an Atheist , or an Infidel of any other ...
... Free- thinker stands for : but it were much to ⚫ be wished , that they , who valued them- felves upon that conceited title ... Freethinker in any tolerable sense , merely by virtue of his being an Atheist , or an Infidel of any other ...
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Page 98 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 231 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 96 - We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works...
Page 137 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 93 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Page 294 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope.
Page xvii - ... there were between God and our Saviour, in reference to his kingdom. We know not what need there was to set up a head and a chieftain, in opposition to " the prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air,
Page 252 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Page 115 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 137 - THOSE who were skilful in anatomy, among the ancients, concluded, from the outward and inward make of an human body, that it was the work of a Being transcendently wise and powerful. As the world grew more enlightened in this art, their discoveries gave them fresh opportunities of admiring the conduct of Providence in the formation of a human body.