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... ment , in the strictest meaning of the term ; the basis of the argument being not what a speculative imagin- ation might suppose the constitution of the universe to have been , had God so willed it , but what it actu- ally and ...
... ment , in the strictest meaning of the term ; the basis of the argument being not what a speculative imagin- ation might suppose the constitution of the universe to have been , had God so willed it , but what it actu- ally and ...
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... whole , are admitted to have been formed . Now if the whole course of this inquiry , from the very first surmises of human reason to the profoundest dogmas of revelation , is necessarily one of embarrass- ment WITH HUMAN REASON . 33.
... whole , are admitted to have been formed . Now if the whole course of this inquiry , from the very first surmises of human reason to the profoundest dogmas of revelation , is necessarily one of embarrass- ment WITH HUMAN REASON . 33.
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Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth. dogmas of revelation , is necessarily one of embarrass- ment , it is obviously unscientific and unphilosophical to adopt a theory so far only as it embraces the maximum of perplexity , and to become indolent ...
Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth. dogmas of revelation , is necessarily one of embarrass- ment , it is obviously unscientific and unphilosophical to adopt a theory so far only as it embraces the maximum of perplexity , and to become indolent ...
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... ment . No Christian , who recollects the inscrutable mysteries which envelope Deism itself , will shrink from avowing the strict analogy which , in that re- spect , exists between the religion of unenlightened reason , and that of the ...
... ment . No Christian , who recollects the inscrutable mysteries which envelope Deism itself , will shrink from avowing the strict analogy which , in that re- spect , exists between the religion of unenlightened reason , and that of the ...
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... ment of the Mosaic narrative . Let it , however , be here again observed , that we allude to these facts as primâ facie coincidences merely . Ignorant as mankind are , and as they are probably for ever destined to remain , of the real ...
... ment of the Mosaic narrative . Let it , however , be here again observed , that we allude to these facts as primâ facie coincidences merely . Ignorant as mankind are , and as they are probably for ever destined to remain , of the real ...
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Page 89 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 142 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 89 - And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day...
Page 90 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself : I am the LORD.
Page 89 - Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Page 60 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree -of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 141 - And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish ; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Page 91 - ... When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 244 - They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Page 90 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ? thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.