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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... happiness and continuance of it ? Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compaffion , forgiveness , and all the inftances of the moft extenfive cha- rity ? Would evil spirits contribute to make men fober , chafte ...
... happiness and continuance of it ? Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compaffion , forgiveness , and all the inftances of the moft extenfive cha- rity ? Would evil spirits contribute to make men fober , chafte ...
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... happiness of reasonable creatures . II . Several of thefe , therefore , when they had informed themselves of our Sa- viour's history , and examined with unpre- judiced minds the doctrines and manners of his difciples and followers ...
... happiness of reasonable creatures . II . Several of thefe , therefore , when they had informed themselves of our Sa- viour's history , and examined with unpre- judiced minds the doctrines and manners of his difciples and followers ...
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... happiness as to expire in torment , and ha- zard their eternity , to fupport any fables and inventions of their own , or any for- geries of their predeceffors who had pre- fided in the fame church , and which might have been easily ...
... happiness as to expire in torment , and ha- zard their eternity , to fupport any fables and inventions of their own , or any for- geries of their predeceffors who had pre- fided in the fame church , and which might have been easily ...
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... happiness , and of feveral other qualities ' and powers , which it is better to have , ' than to be without ; when we would ' frame an idea the most suitable we can ' to the Supreme Being , we enlarge every " one of these with our idea ...
... happiness , and of feveral other qualities ' and powers , which it is better to have , ' than to be without ; when we would ' frame an idea the most suitable we can ' to the Supreme Being , we enlarge every " one of these with our idea ...
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... happiness or misery . For , in this fenfe , he may caft us away from his presence , and take his holy Spirit from us . This fingle confideration one would think fufficient to make us open our hearts to all thofe infufions of joy and ...
... happiness or misery . For , in this fenfe , he may caft us away from his presence , and take his holy Spirit from us . This fingle confideration one would think fufficient to make us open our hearts to all thofe infufions of joy and ...
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againſt Alcibiades Apoſtles becauſe befides beſt bleffed body Chrift Chriſtianity Church confider confideration converfed creatures dæmons death defign defire Diſciples diſcover diſtance Divine doctrine eſpecially eſtabliſhed eternity exiftence exiſtence faith fame feems fenfe fenfible fent feveral fhall fhew fhort fince firft firſt fome foul Freethinker ftate ftill fubject fuch fufferings fure goodneſs Goſpel greateſt happineſs hath Heathens heaven himſelf hiſtory holy human impoffible infinite inftances Irenæus itſelf laſt learned leaſt lived Lord mankind mind miracles moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature obferve occafion ourſelves paffage paffion Pagan paſt perfon philofophers pleaſe pleaſure poffible preſent publiſhed puniſhment purpoſe queftion raiſed reaſon religion repreſented reſpective Sadducees Saviour Saviour's hiftory ſay ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſeveral ſhall ſhort ſhould ſome ſpace ſpeak ſpirits ſtate ſtill ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion truth underſtanding uſe virtue whoſe wiſdom worſhip
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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.