 To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship,...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 85edited by - 1780Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...denomination of protestants ; we know rather what he was not, than what he was. He was not of the chnrch of Rome ; he was not of the church of England. To...church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
 | 1825 - 546 pages
...often enforced, that, "To be of no church is dangerous : religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1825 - 544 pages
...enamel of 'virtue'," and that pregnant sentence of Johnson's cannot be too often enforced, that, " To be of no church is dangerous : religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...himself with any denomination of pro test ants : we know rathe,]' what be was not, than what he was. He was not of the church of Rome ; he was not of the...church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - 458 pages
...fine remark ; that " e to be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the re* wards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind> unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the... | |
 | 1826 - 576 pages
...imaginative invention: "To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, bv stated calls to worship, and the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...his notions of the external services of religion Dr. Johnson has opposed this fine remark ; that " e to be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
 | 1826 - 590 pages
...superior to Milton in gigantic force of intellect, as he was below him in imaginative invention : " To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - 460 pages
...• notions of the external services of religion Dr. Johnson has opposed this fine remark ; that " e to be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
 | 1827 - 394 pages
...superior to Milton in gigantic force of intellect, as he was below him in imaginative invention : ' To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless... | |
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