The natural history of infidelity and superstition in contrast with Christian faithJohn W. Parker & Son, 1852 - Faith |
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... principles , that I begin with some considerations respect- ing those faculties of the soul which are ne- glected , perverted , or abused by the man who rejects the gospel , and are rightly employed , and brought into due exercise by ...
... principles , that I begin with some considerations respect- ing those faculties of the soul which are ne- glected , perverted , or abused by the man who rejects the gospel , and are rightly employed , and brought into due exercise by ...
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... principles of truth , so also , according to the original and perfect constitution of our nature , it pos- sesses the power of discerning fundamental principles of the right and good , —a sound faculty of moral perception and judgment ...
... principles of truth , so also , according to the original and perfect constitution of our nature , it pos- sesses the power of discerning fundamental principles of the right and good , —a sound faculty of moral perception and judgment ...
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... principle of our intellectual nature , distinct from any of those which have been hitherto enumerated , but in harmony with them all , - the principle of faith , the faculty of grasp- ing evidence , with a propensity to admit it when ...
... principle of our intellectual nature , distinct from any of those which have been hitherto enumerated , but in harmony with them all , - the principle of faith , the faculty of grasp- ing evidence , with a propensity to admit it when ...
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... principles into their various details and conclusions ; and in this way it at once gives clearness to our ideas , and enables us to apply our knowledge to the practical purposes of life . And let it be carefully observed that it is the ...
... principles into their various details and conclusions ; and in this way it at once gives clearness to our ideas , and enables us to apply our knowledge to the practical purposes of life . And let it be carefully observed that it is the ...
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... principles to the sublimest discoveries of science and the most useful inventions and appliances of art ; —if , by an inward intuition , we can di- rectly recognise the great antithesis between right and wrong , between good and evil ...
... principles to the sublimest discoveries of science and the most useful inventions and appliances of art ; —if , by an inward intuition , we can di- rectly recognise the great antithesis between right and wrong , between good and evil ...
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Page 422 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 512 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments [be] duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page iv - Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following Subjects — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church — • upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the Articles of the Christian Faith, as comprehended in the...
Page 251 - Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money ; come ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor 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 421 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause...
Page 471 - But superstition hath been the confusion of many states; and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools, and arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order.
Page 453 - Forasmuch, then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil : and deliver them, who through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Page 433 - His choice is approved by the elegant historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.
Page 252 - Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites : have not I sent thee ? And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel ? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.