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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... not ever the most probable Inducement RULE X. ...... In following the Authority of Men , the Choice is wholly to be con- 84 87 90 90 ducted by Prudence .... 100 RULE XI . A probable opinion may be lawfully deposed iv CONTENTS .
... not ever the most probable Inducement RULE X. ...... In following the Authority of Men , the Choice is wholly to be con- 84 87 90 90 ducted by Prudence .... 100 RULE XI . A probable opinion may be lawfully deposed iv CONTENTS .
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... wholly evacuate , the law of God , by which alone we ought to be governed . For if this law of conscience takes away the obligation of the Divine law , or if the Divine law takes away the obligation of con- science when it errs , then ...
... wholly evacuate , the law of God , by which alone we ought to be governed . For if this law of conscience takes away the obligation of the Divine law , or if the Divine law takes away the obligation of con- science when it errs , then ...
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... wholly the man's fault , and besides the intention of God . God hath not made us to sin , but hath committed us to the conduct of conscience , which , by prevaricating its instructions , hath betrayed us . By this it appears what manner ...
... wholly the man's fault , and besides the intention of God . God hath not made us to sin , but hath committed us to the conduct of conscience , which , by prevaricating its instructions , hath betrayed us . By this it appears what manner ...
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... wholly per- mitted to his liberty : although it may be a pious action to pray kneeling on the ground with bare knees , or prostrate on our faces , yet if conscience says it is in no sense laudable , but that it is lawful only , we may ...
... wholly per- mitted to his liberty : although it may be a pious action to pray kneeling on the ground with bare knees , or prostrate on our faces , yet if conscience says it is in no sense laudable , but that it is lawful only , we may ...
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... wholly by opinion and conscience . 4. If the conscience be weakly and innocently misguided , there is no sin either in the error or in the consequent action . Because no man is bound to do better than his best ; and if he hath no sin in ...
... wholly by opinion and conscience . 4. If the conscience be weakly and innocently misguided , there is no sin either in the error or in the consequent action . Because no man is bound to do better than his best ; and if he hath no sin in ...
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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.