A Friendly Epistle to the Deists: And a Rational Prayer Recommended to Them, in Order for Their Conversion to the Christian Religion ...author, and sold, 1760 - 160 pages |
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... punished him most deservedly , by reason of the " execution he caufed to be done on John , firnamed 66 Baptift , by putting him to death : a man who was 66 re « replenished with all virtue , and who exhorted the [ 8 ]
... punished him most deservedly , by reason of the " execution he caufed to be done on John , firnamed 66 Baptift , by putting him to death : a man who was 66 re « replenished with all virtue , and who exhorted the [ 8 ]
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... punish them ) and after diligent enquiry made into the ground on which they believe , forfake all their former perfwafions , and refolvedly adhere to the truth of the doctrine propound- ed to them , though it cost them their lives ; if ...
... punish them ) and after diligent enquiry made into the ground on which they believe , forfake all their former perfwafions , and refolvedly adhere to the truth of the doctrine propound- ed to them , though it cost them their lives ; if ...
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... punished them , not fo much for their religion , and for their ftedfaftnefs to the doctrines of Chrift , as for the contempt of civil authority . That which the chriftians now pleaded for themselves why they should not be reckoned among ...
... punished them , not fo much for their religion , and for their ftedfaftnefs to the doctrines of Chrift , as for the contempt of civil authority . That which the chriftians now pleaded for themselves why they should not be reckoned among ...
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... punished with everlasting de- " ftruction from the presence of the Lord , and from " the glory of his power , " 2 Theff . i . 7 , 8 , 9. That " the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all " ungodlinefs , and unrighteousness of ...
... punished with everlasting de- " ftruction from the presence of the Lord , and from " the glory of his power , " 2 Theff . i . 7 , 8 , 9. That " the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all " ungodlinefs , and unrighteousness of ...
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... punishment can reform them , yet , faith Origen , he not only contra- dicted us chriftians , but all fuch who acknowledged any generous principles of philofophy , and did not despair of recovering virtue , as a thing feasible by human ...
... punishment can reform them , yet , faith Origen , he not only contra- dicted us chriftians , but all fuch who acknowledged any generous principles of philofophy , and did not despair of recovering virtue , as a thing feasible by human ...
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Page 23 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 124 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 52 - And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
Page 117 - Wherefore do ye spend 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 118 - Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.
Page 137 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Page 126 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked : who can know it ? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Page 125 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 115 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...
Page 52 - And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree...