The Scholar Armed Against the Errors of the Time, Or, A Collection of Tracts on the Principles and Evidences of Christianity, the Constitution of the Church, and the Authority of Civil Government, Volume 1Society for the Reformation of Principles, 1800 |
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the cheat when first invented ; as impoffible as to have imposed upon the senses of mankind , at the time when fuch ... sense , of free , generous and unbiaffed judgments for ridi- culing the histories of Mofes and Chrift , that are ...
the cheat when first invented ; as impoffible as to have imposed upon the senses of mankind , at the time when fuch ... sense , of free , generous and unbiaffed judgments for ridi- culing the histories of Mofes and Chrift , that are ...
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... sense among them . Let then pick and choose the most probable of all the fables of the heathen deities , and fee if they can find in any of thefe , the four marks before - mentioned . Otherwise let them fubmit to the irrefragable ...
... sense among them . Let then pick and choose the most probable of all the fables of the heathen deities , and fee if they can find in any of thefe , the four marks before - mentioned . Otherwise let them fubmit to the irrefragable ...
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... senses of mankind , to make them believe that they had practised such public institu tions , enacted them by laws , taught them to their children , & c . when they had never done any of these things , or ever fo much as heard of them ...
... senses of mankind , to make them believe that they had practised such public institu tions , enacted them by laws , taught them to their children , & c . when they had never done any of these things , or ever fo much as heard of them ...
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... sense and reason ) have fo vile and mean an idea of the priests of all religions , why do they not recover the world out of the poffeffion and govern- ment of fuch blockheads ? Why do they fuffer kings and states to be led by them ; to ...
... sense and reason ) have fo vile and mean an idea of the priests of all religions , why do they not recover the world out of the poffeffion and govern- ment of fuch blockheads ? Why do they fuffer kings and states to be led by them ; to ...
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... sense ; this ( befides the modefty of it ) will spoil their great and beloved topic , in behalf of what they call Natural Re- ligion , against the Revealed , viz . appealing to the commen rea- son of mankind : this they fet up against ...
... sense ; this ( befides the modefty of it ) will spoil their great and beloved topic , in behalf of what they call Natural Re- ligion , against the Revealed , viz . appealing to the commen rea- son of mankind : this they fet up against ...
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Page 427 - And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 14 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 214 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 21 - For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
Page 277 - ... should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is...
Page 225 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 215 - Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach.
Page 243 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not ; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Page 214 - Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Page 277 - ... the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...