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Page v
... author is persuaded that the very essence of true piety is concerned in this ... author takes the liberty to appeal . The principal occasion of these Letters ... Socinian principles . In the late application to Parliament , for the repeal ...
... author is persuaded that the very essence of true piety is concerned in this ... author takes the liberty to appeal . The principal occasion of these Letters ... Socinian principles . In the late application to Parliament , for the repeal ...
Page viii
... author was credibly informed , Socinian peculiari- ties were advanced , which passed unnoticed , because those of ... writer of these Letters does not blame the Dissenters of his own persuasion for uniting with the Socinians . In civil ...
... author was credibly informed , Socinian peculiari- ties were advanced , which passed unnoticed , because those of ... writer of these Letters does not blame the Dissenters of his own persuasion for uniting with the Socinians . In civil ...
Page ix
... writer owns , that , when he first conceived the idea of publish- ing these Letters , he thought so ; and intended , all along , to use the term Unitarians . What made him alter his mind was , his observing , that the principal writers ...
... writer owns , that , when he first conceived the idea of publish- ing these Letters , he thought so ; and intended , all along , to use the term Unitarians . What made him alter his mind was , his observing , that the principal writers ...
Page 19
... Socinian writers , when speaking of the sins of men , describe them in the language of palliation ; language tending to convey an idea of pity , but not of blame . Mr. Belsham , speaking of sin , calls it , " human frailty ; " and the ...
... Socinian writers , when speaking of the sins of men , describe them in the language of palliation ; language tending to convey an idea of pity , but not of blame . Mr. Belsham , speaking of sin , calls it , " human frailty ; " and the ...
Page 22
... Socinian writers disown an " implicit belief " in the testimony of the sacred writers , † and how they lean to their own understanding , as the cri- terion by which scripture is to be tried ; that which I would here insist upon is ...
... Socinian writers disown an " implicit belief " in the testimony of the sacred writers , † and how they lean to their own understanding , as the cri- terion by which scripture is to be tried ; that which I would here insist upon is ...
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Page 373 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 401 - For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. " For it is written, 'As I live,' saith the Lord, 'every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
Page 373 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 310 - Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos ; and I of Cephas ; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you ? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
Page 159 - ... the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing ; which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience...
Page 155 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 206 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 365 - Enter ye in at the strait gate ; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat ; because strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Page 369 - And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Page 283 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know...