Christianity Not Mysterious: Or, a Treatise Shewing, that There is Nothing in the Gospel Contrary to Reason, ... By John Toland. To which is Added, An Apology for Mr. Toland, in Relation to the Parliament of Ireland's Ordering this Book to be BurntPrinted in the year, 1702 - 46 pages |
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... ftill more intolerable . How many voluminous Systems , infinitely more difficult than the Scripture , must be read with great Attention by him that would be Mafter of the prefent Theo logy ? What a prodigious Number of barbarous Words ...
... ftill more intolerable . How many voluminous Systems , infinitely more difficult than the Scripture , must be read with great Attention by him that would be Mafter of the prefent Theo logy ? What a prodigious Number of barbarous Words ...
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... Teftament belong no farther to the Enquiries of Reafon than to prove ' em divinely reveal'd , and that they are properly Myfteries ftill . B 3 7. On 7. On the contrary , we hold that Reafon is Christianity not Myfterious .
... Teftament belong no farther to the Enquiries of Reafon than to prove ' em divinely reveal'd , and that they are properly Myfteries ftill . B 3 7. On 7. On the contrary , we hold that Reafon is Christianity not Myfterious .
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... ftill follows , that none can understand these Doctrines except their Perceptions be communicated to him in an extraor dinary manner , as by new Powers and Organs . And then too , others cannot A be edifi'd by what is discours'd of ' em ...
... ftill follows , that none can understand these Doctrines except their Perceptions be communicated to him in an extraor dinary manner , as by new Powers and Organs . And then too , others cannot A be edifi'd by what is discours'd of ' em ...
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... ftill the fame . And fince we can- not in this World know any thing but by our common Notions , how shall we be fure of this pretended Confistency between our present seeming Contra- dictions , and the Theology of the World to come ...
... ftill the fame . And fince we can- not in this World know any thing but by our common Notions , how shall we be fure of this pretended Confistency between our present seeming Contra- dictions , and the Theology of the World to come ...
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... ftill : for when we can- not fee clearly into a Bufinefs , we fay it is a Mystery to us ; and that an ob- fcure or perplex'd Difcourfe is very myfterious . Myfteries of State , Sciences and Trades run all in the fame No- tion . 6. But ...
... ftill : for when we can- not fee clearly into a Bufinefs , we fay it is a Mystery to us ; and that an ob- fcure or perplex'd Difcourfe is very myfterious . Myfteries of State , Sciences and Trades run all in the fame No- tion . 6. But ...
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Page 93 - God : praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Page 53 - The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart : the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 94 - Gentiles, if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which is given me to you ward. How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery...
Page 123 - He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that "diligently feek Him...
Page 57 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man ; but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 95 - Even the Mystery which hath been hid from ages and generations, but now is made manifest to His saints, To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this Mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory...
Page 45 - If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not. But if I do, though you will not believe Me, believe the works ; that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.
Page 137 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 61 - For who maketh tbee to differ from another? and what haft thou that thou didft not receive ? now if thou didft receive it, why doft thou glory as if thou hadft not received it ? Heb.
Page 124 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for ? but if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.