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... equal favour . Now think ye , my friends , if the same apostle should come among us here in London at this time , that he would be permitted to preach in his own church , unless he first qualified himself according to the forms and ...
... equal favour . Now think ye , my friends , if the same apostle should come among us here in London at this time , that he would be permitted to preach in his own church , unless he first qualified himself according to the forms and ...
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... equal to that resulting from the violation of those rules to which the innocent owe the security of all that is dear to them . If such cases have existed , they must have been in instances where trial has been wholly out of the question ...
... equal to that resulting from the violation of those rules to which the innocent owe the security of all that is dear to them . If such cases have existed , they must have been in instances where trial has been wholly out of the question ...
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... equal almost in degree to the belief of the plot itself , to suppose that it was a story fabricated by the Earl of Shaftesbury and the other leaders of the Whig party ; and it would be highly unjust , as well as uncharitable , not to ...
... equal almost in degree to the belief of the plot itself , to suppose that it was a story fabricated by the Earl of Shaftesbury and the other leaders of the Whig party ; and it would be highly unjust , as well as uncharitable , not to ...
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... equal , shares . Witnesses , of such a character as not to deserve credit in the most trifling cause , upon the most immaterial facts , gave evidence so incredible , or , to speak more properly , so impossible to be true , that it ought ...
... equal , shares . Witnesses , of such a character as not to deserve credit in the most trifling cause , upon the most immaterial facts , gave evidence so incredible , or , to speak more properly , so impossible to be true , that it ought ...
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... equal rea- diness , consent either to the extension or the suspension . of its exercise , as the occasional interests of the prince may seem to require . The senseless plea of a divine and indefeasible right in James , which even the ...
... equal rea- diness , consent either to the extension or the suspension . of its exercise , as the occasional interests of the prince may seem to require . The senseless plea of a divine and indefeasible right in James , which even the ...
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Page 14 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 25 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 13 - Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him.
Page 7 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Page 10 - For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen ; whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
Page 7 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Page 7 - We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force : God therefore left him free ; set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.
Page 7 - Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breast-plate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace ; above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one ; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of...
Page 26 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Page 1 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed.