The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author, Volume 4 |
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... mysterious rites , proper to be celebrated in the night - time , like the pagan Orgies : 2. Or that the first propagators of the Faith affected to imitate the dark and enigmatic genius of Paganism : 3. Or that their followers were a set ...
... mysterious rites , proper to be celebrated in the night - time , like the pagan Orgies : 2. Or that the first propagators of the Faith affected to imitate the dark and enigmatic genius of Paganism : 3. Or that their followers were a set ...
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... mysterious rites of Paganism . On a presumption of the truth of this fact , he must build his hypothesis- It may be asked ( says he ) in that almost universal licence or toleration , which the Ancients , the Romans parti- cularly ...
... mysterious rites of Paganism . On a presumption of the truth of this fact , he must build his hypothesis- It may be asked ( says he ) in that almost universal licence or toleration , which the Ancients , the Romans parti- cularly ...
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... mysterious rites , which ( to keep up a ve- neration for the worship , and to create a sacred horror in the Participant ) were generally celebrated in the night . But as this afforded opportunities of private enormities , as well as of ...
... mysterious rites , which ( to keep up a ve- neration for the worship , and to create a sacred horror in the Participant ) were generally celebrated in the night . But as this afforded opportunities of private enormities , as well as of ...
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... MYSTERIOUS AND NOCTURNAL RITES . But it will be said , " Some jealousy entertained of this way of worship , by the MAGISTRATE , might occa- sion that fiery inquisition : Nocturnal assemblies had been abused , and therefore it became him ...
... MYSTERIOUS AND NOCTURNAL RITES . But it will be said , " Some jealousy entertained of this way of worship , by the MAGISTRATE , might occa- sion that fiery inquisition : Nocturnal assemblies had been abused , and therefore it became him ...
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... mysterious air of Paganism . And the obliquities , which led them into these follies , they would strive to palliate or disguise by a pretended impatience for the speedier extension of the Faith . I have shewn , from Casaubon , how this ...
... mysterious air of Paganism . And the obliquities , which led them into these follies , they would strive to palliate or disguise by a pretended impatience for the speedier extension of the Faith . I have shewn , from Casaubon , how this ...
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Page 440 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 17 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page 289 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt . And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
Page 19 - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 258 - God shall choose one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Page 287 - And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey ? were it not better for us to return into Egypt ? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Page 291 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 135 - Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees ? Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 282 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord : and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 299 - If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.