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againſt almoſt amidſt anſwer antient apoſtles aſked atheiſts becauſe believe beſt biſhop body cauſe Chineſe Chrift Chriſtians church cife Colchis Cu-su cuſtom deities difpute divine earth Egypt Egyptians emperor eſpecially eternal exiſtence faid fame father feen felf fenfation fenfe feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fignifies fince firſt fociety fome fomething fometimes foon foul ftill fubject fuch thing fure gods Greeks heaven himſelf hiſtory hundred idolaters impoffible Irenæus itſelf Jefus Jewiſh Jews Karpos king Lactantius laws leaſt lefs leſs likewife maſter Meffiah miracles Mofes moſt muft muſt myſelf myſteries nations nature neceffarily never obferve ourſelves paffage perfons philofophers pleaſed pleaſure prefent prieſts puniſhments queſtion raiſe reaſon refpect religion ROBERT URIE Romans Rome Sadducees ſay ſeveral ſhall ſome ſpeak ſtate ſtatues ſtill ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand underſtand univerfal uſe virtue whoſe wife word worſhip
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Page 296 - I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it...
Page 104 - For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law : but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Page 37 - Ask a toad what is beauty, the supremely beautiful, the to kalon, he will answer you that it is his female, with two large round eyes projecting out of its little head, a broad, flat neck, yellow breast, and dark brown back!" Ask a Guinea negro the same question, and he will point you to a greasy black skin, hollow eyes, thick lips, and a flat nose, with perhaps an ingot of gold in it. "With the modern Greeks and other nations on the shores of the Mediterranean, corpulency...
Page 365 - And thefe again are checked by rmn ; who in his turn fubmits to other natures, and refigns his form a facrifice in common to the reft of things.
Page 34 - Is it from my speaking, that you allow me sense, memory, or ideas ? Well, I am silent; but you see me come home very melancholy, and with eager anxiety look for a paper, open the bureau where I remember to have put it, take it up, and read it with apparent joy. You hence infer that I have felt pain and pleasure, and think I have memory and knowledge.
Page 361 - If he has the will, and not the power, this shows weakness, which is contrary to the nature of God. If he has the power, and not the will, it is malignity; and this is no less contrary to his nature.
Page 359 - ... rage, by which the world is laid wafte ! Put together all the vices of all ages and places, and never will they come up to the mifchiefs and enormities of only one compaign.
Page 356 - That house had some distant claim to a province, the last proprietor of which died of an apoplexy. The prince and his council instantly resolve, that this province belongs to him by divine right. The province, which is some hundred leagues from him, protests that it does not so much as know him ; that it is not disposed to be governed by him ; that before prescribing laws to them, their consent, at least, was necessary. These...
Page 357 - If the slain in a battle do not exceed two or three thousand", the fortunate commander does not think it worth thanking God for ; but if, besides killing ten or twelve thousand men, he has been so far favoured by heaven, as totally to destroy some remarkable place, then a verbose hymn is sung in four parts, composed in a language unknown to all the combatants.