The Gospel Its Own WitnessIsaac Collins for Cornelius Davis, 1801 - 235 pages |
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... most popular writers , hoping to avail himself of this circumftance , is pleafed to entitle his performance The Age of Reafon . This writer is aware that flattery is one of the most fuccessful means of gaining admiffion to the human ...
... most popular writers , hoping to avail himself of this circumftance , is pleafed to entitle his performance The Age of Reafon . This writer is aware that flattery is one of the most fuccessful means of gaining admiffion to the human ...
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... most indubitable evidence of being wrought by the finger of God . If Christianity can be proved to be a religion that inspires the love of God and man , yea and the only religion in the world that does fo ; if it endues the mind of him ...
... most indubitable evidence of being wrought by the finger of God . If Christianity can be proved to be a religion that inspires the love of God and man , yea and the only religion in the world that does fo ; if it endues the mind of him ...
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... most outrageous and abufive language . CHA P. III . The Chriftian Standard of morality is enlarged , and free from impurity : but deifm confines our obliga- . tions to thofe duties which refpect our own species , and greatly palliates ...
... most outrageous and abufive language . CHA P. III . The Chriftian Standard of morality is enlarged , and free from impurity : but deifm confines our obliga- . tions to thofe duties which refpect our own species , and greatly palliates ...
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... most , and with the greateft fhew of argument , is the lar and light of nature . This is their profeffed rule on almost all occafions ; and its praises they are continu- ally founding . I have no defire to depreciate the light of nature ...
... most , and with the greateft fhew of argument , is the lar and light of nature . This is their profeffed rule on almost all occafions ; and its praises they are continu- ally founding . I have no defire to depreciate the light of nature ...
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... most irra- tional fpecies of idolatry , or defifting from the most odious kinds of vice . Those nations where science diffused a more than ordinary luftre , were as fuper- ftitious , and as wicked as the most barbarous ; and in many ...
... most irra- tional fpecies of idolatry , or defifting from the most odious kinds of vice . Those nations where science diffused a more than ordinary luftre , were as fuper- ftitious , and as wicked as the most barbarous ; and in many ...
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Page 19 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 59 - So they took the money, and did as they were taught : and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
Page 146 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 107 - Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Page 59 - And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying ; All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them ; Be not afraid ; go, tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Page 59 - And go quickly, and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead ; and, behold, He goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see Him: lo, I have told you.
Page 39 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Page 102 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 17 - GIVE thanks unto the LORD ; call upon his name : make known his deeds among the people. 2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him : talk ye of all his wondrous works. 3 Glory ye in his holy name : let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
Page 38 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.