A Creed Founded on Truth and Common Sense: With Some Strictures on the Origin of Our Ideas, the Primary Design of the Decalogue, the Light, Law, and Religion of Nature, Natural Conscience and the Moral Sense. With a Letter to His Grace the Abp. of Canterbury, and an Appendix to the Rev. Dr. FosterR. Spavan, 1750 - 140 pages |
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... say ; but that it will be done , is more than probable ; and I can wish your Lordship no higher Glory here than to be the Author of it . I humbly conceive while this continues to be neglected , as it has been too long , it would be ...
... say ; but that it will be done , is more than probable ; and I can wish your Lordship no higher Glory here than to be the Author of it . I humbly conceive while this continues to be neglected , as it has been too long , it would be ...
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... say , that it does not appear by any of the Answers yet given to the Deifts of late , that the Authors knew how to come at the original Evidence of Chriftianity . If they did , why have they not produced it ? For I fhall take the ...
... say , that it does not appear by any of the Answers yet given to the Deifts of late , that the Authors knew how to come at the original Evidence of Chriftianity . If they did , why have they not produced it ? For I fhall take the ...
Page 47
... say exprefs'd ) that there were more than one Operator exhibited in it , and fo must be Three ; in Oppofition to this , and all others , was the 2d Commandment . Exod . xx . 4. Thou shalt not make to thy felf any graven Image , & c ...
... say exprefs'd ) that there were more than one Operator exhibited in it , and fo must be Three ; in Oppofition to this , and all others , was the 2d Commandment . Exod . xx . 4. Thou shalt not make to thy felf any graven Image , & c ...
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... Saying , to a Stock ( the Reprefentation of the Power ) thou art my Father , and to a Stone , thou baft brought me forth . The Jews were directed to make no fuch Acknowledgements ; those were due to Jehovah Elahim : And all fecondary ...
... Saying , to a Stock ( the Reprefentation of the Power ) thou art my Father , and to a Stone , thou baft brought me forth . The Jews were directed to make no fuch Acknowledgements ; those were due to Jehovah Elahim : And all fecondary ...
Page 109
... say , that either I never saw such a Heap of unmeaning Stuff , fuch an empty Harangue , fuch an Attack up- on the Religion of his Country , Chriftianity , and common Senfe , put into Print before ; or , that all I have wrote , or can ...
... say , that either I never saw such a Heap of unmeaning Stuff , fuch an empty Harangue , fuch an Attack up- on the Religion of his Country , Chriftianity , and common Senfe , put into Print before ; or , that all I have wrote , or can ...
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Page 77 - Wherefore do ye spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good ; and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Page 45 - Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not : thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Page 36 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 36 - Let us go and serve other gods which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth.
Page 77 - Ho, every one that thirfteth, come ye to the waters ; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price.
Page 81 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Page 44 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a...
Page 47 - And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah ; and his wife was barren, and bare not. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
Page 39 - And that she increased her whoredoms : for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, "Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Page 17 - Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.