 Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.  The Bible in Many Tongues - Page 141853 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Stokes Dudley - Bible - 1821 - 620 pages
...times as these that their value is felt and their application demanded. 3. " The Bible," says Locke, " has GOD for its author; salvation for its end ; and...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." The interest excited by a desire to possess it, or to assist in its universal diffusion, is as much... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1806
...to you with the infpired volume irt their hand, with the Bible, which has " God for its Author,— r Salvation for its end, — and Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter."* God's ambafTadors, negociating. his affairs, maintaining his intcrefts among men, what but his revealed... | |
 | James Heaton - Demoniac possession - 1822 - 286 pages
...frequently asserted, proved, and exemplified, as tlie subject of spiritual agency is, in that book which has " God for its Author, Salvation for its...Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter," cannot be destitute of utility and interest to men. But however important a knowledge of the reality... | |
 | James Brewster - Apologetics - 1822 - 432 pages
...Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author ; salvation for its end ; and...truth without any mixture of error, for its matter. So that it is a wonder to me how any one professing Christianity, that would seriously set himself... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...to the New Testament, which will apply with equal propriety to the whole canon of scripture — "It has God for its author ; salvation for its end ; and...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." CHRISTIANS, would a Turk or aBracbman thus treat his Koran or his S/taster? 3. Is it not degrading... | |
 | Henry Matthews - 1822 - 328 pages
...Rome — but as it is written and recorded in that sacred volume — which, in the words of Locke, has "God for its author, salvation for its end, and...truth without any mixture of error for its matter." 25th. Christinas day. A grand ceremony in the church of S. Maria Maggwre; — where mass was performed... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Censorship - 1822 - 242 pages
...times have in vain endeavoured to assail. To ase the words of Mr. Locke, " The religion of this couutry has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its subject and its matter." Such a religion cannot be affected by the works of Paine* or those of 1* greater... | |
 | Robert Adam - Religions - 1823 - 530 pages
...Books wherein are contained, as Mr. Locke has very justly observed, "the words of eternal life. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and...truth without any mixture of error for its matter." WORSHIP, IUTUS, CEREMONIES, &C. If the Koran, instead of enlarging our ideas, and extending our knowledge... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 590 pages
...Holy Scripture, especially the New Testament." Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author ; salvation for its end ; and...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. So that it is a wonder to me, how any one professing Christianity, that would seriously set himself... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1823 - 382 pages
...holy Scripture, especially in the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author ; salvation for its end ; and...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." Mr. Locke now found his asthmatic disorder growing extremely troublesome, though it did not prevent... | |
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