Considerations on the Theory of Religion: In Three Parts ... To which are Added, Two Discourses ... with an Appendix Concerning the Use of the Word Soul in Holy Scripture; and the State of the Dead There Described |
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... and confequently deftitute of all hope founded on their original frame ; and which is all , I think , that can be well concluded from these , and the like texts ) and yet I apprehend that this everlast- like vill PREFACE .
... and confequently deftitute of all hope founded on their original frame ; and which is all , I think , that can be well concluded from these , and the like texts ) and yet I apprehend that this everlast- like vill PREFACE .
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... exercife : while it pre- tends to confitute an equality among rational agents , is really de- . ftructive of both rationality , and agency . only could there be place for hope or fear , 14 Of the want of Univerfality.
... exercife : while it pre- tends to confitute an equality among rational agents , is really de- . ftructive of both rationality , and agency . only could there be place for hope or fear , 14 Of the want of Univerfality.
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... hope or fear , reward or punishment , the only proper means of go- verning free , rational agents ; and of conducting them to their fupreme and truest happiness , which feems entirely to confift in agency ; and which can only this way ...
... hope or fear , reward or punishment , the only proper means of go- verning free , rational agents ; and of conducting them to their fupreme and truest happiness , which feems entirely to confift in agency ; and which can only this way ...
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... hope and truft it is not ; this author , I conceive , fhould have fhewn thefe proceedings to be warrantable , ere he went on in earnest to draw fuch a confequence , as that the whole fubject is abfolutely B 4 as may be kept up by those ...
... hope and truft it is not ; this author , I conceive , fhould have fhewn thefe proceedings to be warrantable , ere he went on in earnest to draw fuch a confequence , as that the whole fubject is abfolutely B 4 as may be kept up by those ...
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... hope to deliver men from fuperfti tion , bigotry and perfecution , which have been fome of the greatest ' blemishes in the human conduct . As arts and sciences are now in a flourishing condition , in a great part of the world , we may hope ...
... hope to deliver men from fuperfti tion , bigotry and perfecution , which have been fome of the greatest ' blemishes in the human conduct . As arts and sciences are now in a flourishing condition , in a great part of the world , we may hope ...
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Page v - And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 369 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Page 377 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Page 391 - Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Page 371 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God...
Page 371 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 390 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 377 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 390 - Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, And he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Page 386 - Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.