Discourses Relating to the Evidence of Revealed Religion ...J. Johnson, 1796 |
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... received , " No perfon remains in this intermediate " fyftem but through want of reflection , ti- " midity , paffion , or obftinacy . Time , expe- " rience , and an impartial examination of our " ideas , will undeceive us . Voltaire ...
... received , " No perfon remains in this intermediate " fyftem but through want of reflection , ti- " midity , paffion , or obftinacy . Time , expe- " rience , and an impartial examination of our " ideas , will undeceive us . Voltaire ...
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... received into everlasting habitations here- after . This is done by the help of religion , which by this means makes a man a fuperior kind of being to what he was before . If great thoughts , as Lord Bacon fays , make great minds , how ...
... received into everlasting habitations here- after . This is done by the help of religion , which by this means makes a man a fuperior kind of being to what he was before . If great thoughts , as Lord Bacon fays , make great minds , how ...
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... of others , who had received the tenets that had been tranfmitted to them from early times , and that what they taught was delivered to their pupils on their fole authority , as what was not pupils Revealed Religion . 31.
... of others , who had received the tenets that had been tranfmitted to them from early times , and that what they taught was delivered to their pupils on their fole authority , as what was not pupils Revealed Religion . 31.
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... received their religion , imagined that - particular animals were the favourites of particular deities , and communicated their powers to them . At least , they confidered their feveral qualities as fymbols of divine power , and at ...
... received their religion , imagined that - particular animals were the favourites of particular deities , and communicated their powers to them . At least , they confidered their feveral qualities as fymbols of divine power , and at ...
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... received fuch fa- " crifices with approbation . " But Plutarch , from his own better reafon , thought too fa- vourably of the religion of his ancestors . In the Omophagia , which was a festival of the Greeks in honour of Bacchus , the ...
... received fuch fa- " crifices with approbation . " But Plutarch , from his own better reafon , thought too fa- vourably of the religion of his ancestors . In the Omophagia , which was a festival of the Greeks in honour of Bacchus , the ...
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Էջ 95 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Էջ 95 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth: they are a trouble unto Me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Էջ 200 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know...
Էջ 90 - LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
Էջ 96 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Էջ 214 - And they forsook the Lord GOD of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed" themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger. And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Էջ 261 - ... and Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: and he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee...
Էջ 267 - LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods!
Էջ 48 - God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened, Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Էջ 90 - Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me ; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.