The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings, Volume 12Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839 |
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... religion , or upon natural imbecility , they alike abuse the conscience . Ignorance makes it erro- neous , but takes not away its confidence , but oftentimes increases it fear makes it erroneous too ; and though it begins in doubting ...
... religion , or upon natural imbecility , they alike abuse the conscience . Ignorance makes it erro- neous , but takes not away its confidence , but oftentimes increases it fear makes it erroneous too ; and though it begins in doubting ...
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... religion , infallible in them- selves , but we may be deceived , while by a fallible way we proceed to infallible notices , for nothing else could endear our labour and our love , our search and our obedience ; and therefore this must ...
... religion , infallible in them- selves , but we may be deceived , while by a fallible way we proceed to infallible notices , for nothing else could endear our labour and our love , our search and our obedience ; and therefore this must ...
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... religion , is from God ; ' con- cerning which I will not now pretend to bring in all the particulars whereby each ... religions , by examination of the contrary pretences , refutation of their arguments , answering their objections , and ...
... religion , is from God ; ' con- cerning which I will not now pretend to bring in all the particulars whereby each ... religions , by examination of the contrary pretences , refutation of their arguments , answering their objections , and ...
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... religion , are infinitely outweighed by the multitude and variety of things to be said for it ; and let the others stand ( as if they meet with persons that cannot answer them ) , yet they are sure this greater ought to prevail ...
... religion , are infinitely outweighed by the multitude and variety of things to be said for it ; and let the others stand ( as if they meet with persons that cannot answer them ) , yet they are sure this greater ought to prevail ...
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... and ears against truth ; and what we do every minute of our lives in matters of little and of great concernment , if we refuse to do in our religion , which yet 1 is to be conducted as other human affairs are , 50 OF THE PROBABLE ,
... and ears against truth ; and what we do every minute of our lives in matters of little and of great concernment , if we refuse to do in our religion , which yet 1 is to be conducted as other human affairs are , 50 OF THE PROBABLE ,
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Page 371 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 370 - 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 286 - The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Page 287 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : 1 7 Which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 367 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 328 - And yet indeed she is my sister: she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 293 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 499 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 204 - Fures, inquit, privatorum furtorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt, fures publici in auro atque in purpura.
Page 326 - There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband ; for her may he be defiled.