The Travels of Cyrus: To which is Annexed A Discourse Upon the Theology and Mythology of the PagansPratt and Doubleday, 1814 - 404 pages |
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... doctrines of religion are only the effects of the ignorance and stupidity of the infant world ; that the first men , not knowing the phyisical causes , had recourse to invisible powers to explain the phenomena of nature ; and lastly ...
... doctrines of religion are only the effects of the ignorance and stupidity of the infant world ; that the first men , not knowing the phyisical causes , had recourse to invisible powers to explain the phenomena of nature ; and lastly ...
Page xvi
... doctrines of faith , essence and form , the spirit and the letter , which ought never to be separated , but which cannot be confounded without disguising and dishonoring Chistianity . He hoped thereby to have given a plan of religion ...
... doctrines of faith , essence and form , the spirit and the letter , which ought never to be separated , but which cannot be confounded without disguising and dishonoring Chistianity . He hoped thereby to have given a plan of religion ...
Page xvii
... doctrine is the only one which the author adopts . The order of these conversations shews the progress of the mind , the matter being so dis- posed , that the Atheist becomes Deist , the Deist Socini- an , and the Socinian Christian ...
... doctrine is the only one which the author adopts . The order of these conversations shews the progress of the mind , the matter being so dis- posed , that the Atheist becomes Deist , the Deist Socini- an , and the Socinian Christian ...
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... doctrines , but by proving them to be divinely revealed . In a word , he should fix the mind of the young Hero by indisputable facts , which strike much more forcibly than abstract ideas . And it is for this reason that the author ...
... doctrines , but by proving them to be divinely revealed . In a word , he should fix the mind of the young Hero by indisputable facts , which strike much more forcibly than abstract ideas . And it is for this reason that the author ...
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... doctrine spread every where by the ancient Magi , that pleasure is the only moving spring of a man's heart . For as each man placed his pleasure in what he liked best , this maxim authorised virtue or vice , according to every one's ...
... doctrine spread every where by the ancient Magi , that pleasure is the only moving spring of a man's heart . For as each man placed his pleasure in what he liked best , this maxim authorised virtue or vice , according to every one's ...
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Page 318 - Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, the Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 338 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 304 - I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, And make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, And cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 305 - I have made the earth, and created man upon it : I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Page 318 - Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah ; and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, he is the God which is in Jerusalem.
Page 339 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
Page 305 - For Jacob, my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name. I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me...
Page 294 - It was this Messiah who conversed with the patriarchs under a human form: it was he who appeared to Moses upon the Holy Mount : it was he who spoke to the prophets under a visible appearance ; and it is he who will at last come in triumph upon the clouds to restore the universe to its primitive splendour and felicity.
Page 336 - He is the universal spirit that pervades and diffuseth itself over all nature. All beings receive their life from Him. There is but one only God, who is not, as some are apt to imagine, seated above the world, beyond the orb of the universe ; but being Himself all in all, He sees all the beings that...
Page 305 - I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron ; and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.