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Page iv
... lives we are fubject to fuccef- five impreffions ; for , either new ideas are continually flowing in , or traces of the old ones are marked deeper . If therefore , you be not acquiring good principles , be affured that you are acquiring ...
... lives we are fubject to fuccef- five impreffions ; for , either new ideas are continually flowing in , or traces of the old ones are marked deeper . If therefore , you be not acquiring good principles , be affured that you are acquiring ...
Page vi
... lives , to check the ex- travagance of your paffions , and to affift you in acquiring that knowledge , without which your rational powers will be of no advantage to you . you would distinguish yourselves as men , and attain the true ...
... lives , to check the ex- travagance of your paffions , and to affift you in acquiring that knowledge , without which your rational powers will be of no advantage to you . you would distinguish yourselves as men , and attain the true ...
Page xiv
... live , to better purpose . As my føle view in this short system was to teach the elements of religious knowledge to perfons intended for common and civil life , and not for any of the learn- ed profeffions , I have avoided , as much as ...
... live , to better purpose . As my føle view in this short system was to teach the elements of religious knowledge to perfons intended for common and civil life , and not for any of the learn- ed profeffions , I have avoided , as much as ...
Page xxvi
... live and die in the utter ignorance of the contents of their bibles . With this neglect of family difcipline , the neglect of discipline in our churches , which has been owing to fimilar causes , has likewife concurred . In many of our ...
... live and die in the utter ignorance of the contents of their bibles . With this neglect of family difcipline , the neglect of discipline in our churches , which has been owing to fimilar causes , has likewife concurred . In many of our ...
Page xxix
... mind than ever . If men have lived all their lives unac- quainted with better principles , the pro- pofal of them may strike and influence ; b 3 but but if they relate to fubjects which they have often Religious Knowledge . xxix.
... mind than ever . If men have lived all their lives unac- quainted with better principles , the pro- pofal of them may strike and influence ; b 3 but but if they relate to fubjects which they have often Religious Knowledge . xxix.
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