The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author, Volume 4 |
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... God's Dispensations to your Fathers , even before his giving the Law , can never be rightly understood , or fully ... God reveals to your father Abraham the Redemption of Mankind by the death and passion of his Son . Why then , I ask you ...
... God's Dispensations to your Fathers , even before his giving the Law , can never be rightly understood , or fully ... God reveals to your father Abraham the Redemption of Mankind by the death and passion of his Son . Why then , I ask you ...
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... Gods are watchful to " discover such sort of men . And it is much fitter that they themselves should punish those who REFUSE TO WORSHIP THEM , than that we should interfere in " << 99 " their quarrel † . The emperor , at length , speaks ...
... Gods are watchful to " discover such sort of men . And it is much fitter that they themselves should punish those who REFUSE TO WORSHIP THEM , than that we should interfere in " << 99 " their quarrel † . The emperor , at length , speaks ...
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... Gods before they had well emancipated themselves from the condition of brutes t . The two great supports of natural religion , in the world at large , are the belief of a FUTURE STATE , and the knowledge of MORAL OBLIGATION . The first ...
... Gods before they had well emancipated themselves from the condition of brutes t . The two great supports of natural religion , in the world at large , are the belief of a FUTURE STATE , and the knowledge of MORAL OBLIGATION . The first ...
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... God hath shewed it unto them * ) , go on like beasts , and follow one another as they are led or driven . " To this ... God's goodness for a which 72 [ Book IV .: THE DIVINE LEGATION.
... God hath shewed it unto them * ) , go on like beasts , and follow one another as they are led or driven . " To this ... God's goodness for a which 72 [ Book IV .: THE DIVINE LEGATION.
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... God's goodness for a re- medy : but in the Christian world , for the very contrary reason , all wicked men act ill AGAINST PRINCIPLE ; a condition of perverseness which seems to call out for nothing but his justice : God , according to ...
... God's goodness for a re- medy : but in the Christian world , for the very contrary reason , all wicked men act ill AGAINST PRINCIPLE ; a condition of perverseness which seems to call out for nothing but his justice : God , according to ...
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Page 440 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 17 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page 289 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt . And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
Page 19 - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 258 - God shall choose one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Page 287 - And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey ? were it not better for us to return into Egypt ? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Page 291 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 135 - Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees ? Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 282 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord : and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 299 - If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.