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... sceptics would have the hardi- hood to controvert . Why , then , having succeeded thus far , has it not done still more ? To what are we to attribute the slowness with which , in latter times , this singular religion has made and ...
... sceptics would have the hardi- hood to controvert . Why , then , having succeeded thus far , has it not done still more ? To what are we to attribute the slowness with which , in latter times , this singular religion has made and ...
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... - cerns . Yet the doctrine of a Creator , thus indifferent to the welfare of his creatures , is too monstrous to meet with the patronage of any reasonable sceptic . How then does he make his way through this seem 3 * WITH HUMAN REASON . 29.
... - cerns . Yet the doctrine of a Creator , thus indifferent to the welfare of his creatures , is too monstrous to meet with the patronage of any reasonable sceptic . How then does he make his way through this seem 3 * WITH HUMAN REASON . 29.
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... sceptic , in the next place , admits the doctrine of the soul's immortality , because without that ad- mission , under the present unequal distribution of worldly prosperity , religion itself were an empty name . Yet press him with the ...
... sceptic , in the next place , admits the doctrine of the soul's immortality , because without that ad- mission , under the present unequal distribution of worldly prosperity , religion itself were an empty name . Yet press him with the ...
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... sceptic . By a sober investigation of them , then , let it be tried . The result , we are satisfied , will be , that the additional enigmas which it pro- poses , beyond those attaching to natural religion , are not more in number than ...
... sceptic . By a sober investigation of them , then , let it be tried . The result , we are satisfied , will be , that the additional enigmas which it pro- poses , beyond those attaching to natural religion , are not more in number than ...
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... sceptic does not argue the matter fairly . He assumes that a Divine revelation ought necessarily to operate as a universal solution of pre- existing doubt , whereas the infinite and stupendous nature of the problems with which it has to ...
... sceptic does not argue the matter fairly . He assumes that a Divine revelation ought necessarily to operate as a universal solution of pre- existing doubt , whereas the infinite and stupendous nature of the problems with which it has to ...
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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.