Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year MDCCXCI.: At the Lecture Founded by the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.A. Canon of SalisburyJ. Fletcher, D. Prince and J. Cooke, and R. Bliss; and by Rivington and Sons, and T. Payne, London., 1791 - Faith - 242 pages |
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... true religion lends to every part of virtue , we shall be led to acknowledge that there is ample ground for confidence in the Veracity of human teftimony . Whoever shall decide otherwise , will maintain an opinion un- worthy of God in ...
... true religion lends to every part of virtue , we shall be led to acknowledge that there is ample ground for confidence in the Veracity of human teftimony . Whoever shall decide otherwise , will maintain an opinion un- worthy of God in ...
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... true criticism will enable men , by contemplating the nature of the evidence , and investigating its cir- cumstances , to set at a great distance from the limits of hesitation an infinite number of affer- tions proposed to their belief ...
... true criticism will enable men , by contemplating the nature of the evidence , and investigating its cir- cumstances , to set at a great distance from the limits of hesitation an infinite number of affer- tions proposed to their belief ...
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... true . It may also be such , that all the poffible causes of mistake or falfhood may be greatly overbalanced by others that guard from error and oblige to veracity ; or that it may not admit of scarcely the leaft principle of deception ...
... true . It may also be such , that all the poffible causes of mistake or falfhood may be greatly overbalanced by others that guard from error and oblige to veracity ; or that it may not admit of scarcely the leaft principle of deception ...
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... true , let us then look with all due estimation on the cause , whenever we are led to contemplate the great and import- ant effects which this fpecies of knowledge is able to produce in the intellectual world ; when we confider that it ...
... true , let us then look with all due estimation on the cause , whenever we are led to contemplate the great and import- ant effects which this fpecies of knowledge is able to produce in the intellectual world ; when we confider that it ...
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... worthy of all confidence from men . It carries a more obvious proof that it is the purpose of Almighty God that we fhould be swayed and directed by it ; and there- fore fore must be a true and just rule , proceeding 30 SERMON II.
... worthy of all confidence from men . It carries a more obvious proof that it is the purpose of Almighty God that we fhould be swayed and directed by it ; and there- fore fore must be a true and just rule , proceeding 30 SERMON II.
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Page 172 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 146 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page 135 - It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Page 133 - law of God after the inward man. But I fee another *' law in my members, warring againft the law of my " mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, * which is in my members.
Page 124 - I might shew My power in thee, and that My Name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth.
Page 68 - If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.