 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 Evangelical Magazine - Page 1571798Full view - About this book
 | 1825 - 556 pages
...happy, even in this life only. The Scripture, on the other hand, ' with God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error, for its matter,' it commands with ¡minority, it speaks to the heart and to the understandmg, it reveals the Almighty... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 288 pages
...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." A direction that was copied from his own practice, in the latter part of his life, and after his retirement... | |
 | 874 pages
...the most pure and influential of all books. " It has," as Locke said, " God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its subject matter." He, therefore, who is entrusted with the education of the young, and doe* not most... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1826 - 878 pages
...superstition, on the one hand, and infidelity on the other. The Bible has God for its author, happiness for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter ; " and he that believeth not may be damned." Now is not that evidence enough ? What would men have?... | |
 | Catholic claims - 1826 - 322 pages
...surrender the free, stated, and general perusal of that volume which " has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter." Where the eggs of the cockatrice are thus unsparingly deposited, can it be a cause of surprise that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1827 - 390 pages
...New Testament. " Therein are contained the words of eter" nal life. It has God for its Author; sal" vation for its end; and truth, without " any mixture of error, for its matter.'' A direction that was copied from his own practice*, in the latter part of his life, and after his retirement... | |
 | Christian life - 1827 - 316 pages
...John Locke, "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." Shall a volume so precious lay unoccupied on the shelf? Shall it merely meet the eye, to attract commendation... | |
 | Tracts - 1834 - 344 pages
...; but in the energetic words of Locke himself, a religion which has ' God for its author, Salvation for its end, and Truth without any mixture of error for its matter.' To their apprehensions, there was no want of evidence for the genuineness and authenticity of the Christian... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...in England when there was, indeed, a dearth of that word which has " God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter *." There was a time when it might be too sadly affirmed, few cared for the souls of the young and... | |
 | John Angell James - Children - 1827 - 198 pages
...philosophy, that sacred volume, which, to use the words of Locke, "has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error, for its contents." Do not forget, then, that the very first requisite, not only in religion itself, but also... | |
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