The Works of William Paley ...: Comprising the Additional Volume of Sermons First Published in 1825, with a Memoir of His Life : Complete in Six Volumes, Volume 3Hilliard and Brown, 1830 |
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... hands of a lecturer , or as a guide to a student , who is sup- posed to consult other books , or to institute upon each subject researches of his own , the method is by no means convenient for * Preface to The Preceptor , ' by Dr ...
... hands of a lecturer , or as a guide to a student , who is sup- posed to consult other books , or to institute upon each subject researches of his own , the method is by no means convenient for * Preface to The Preceptor , ' by Dr ...
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... hand , I have seldom , I hope , exercised the patience of the reader by the length and prolixity of my essays , or disappointed that patience at last by the tenuity and unimportance of the conclusion . There are two particulars in the ...
... hand , I have seldom , I hope , exercised the patience of the reader by the length and prolixity of my essays , or disappointed that patience at last by the tenuity and unimportance of the conclusion . There are two particulars in the ...
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... hand , than in any other , not to say , than in all others put together . His talent also for illustration is unrivalled . But his thoughts are diffused through - a long , various , and irregular work . xiv PREFACE .
... hand , than in any other , not to say , than in all others put together . His talent also for illustration is unrivalled . But his thoughts are diffused through - a long , various , and irregular work . xiv PREFACE .
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... hand , answers have been given to most of these arguments , by the patrons of the opposite system : and , First , as to the uniformity above alleged , they controvert the fact . They remark , from authentic accounts of historians and ...
... hand , answers have been given to most of these arguments , by the patrons of the opposite system : and , First , as to the uniformity above alleged , they controvert the fact . They remark , from authentic accounts of historians and ...
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... hand and indelible characters of nature . But , Secondly , because , after these exceptions and abatements , it cannot be denied but that some sorts of actions command and receive the esteem of mankind more than others ; and that the ...
... hand and indelible characters of nature . But , Secondly , because , after these exceptions and abatements , it cannot be denied but that some sorts of actions command and receive the esteem of mankind more than others ; and that the ...
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Page 217 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 194 - LOOKING UNTO JESUS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH ; WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, AND IS SET DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD. FOR CONSIDER HIM THAT ENDURED SUCH CONTRADICTION OF SINNERS AGAINST HIMSELF, LEST YE BE WEARIED AND FAINT IN YOUR MINDS.
Page 204 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 21 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the •' will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 156 - Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Page 222 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm: therefore the LoRD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 222 - Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work ; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 223 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Page 120 - And inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me...
Page 182 - Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.