A dictionary of all religions and religious denominations,including the substance of H. Adams's View of religions. The whole revised by T. Williams. To the whole is prefixed, An essay on truth, by A. Fuller. 3rd Lond. ed., with new articles and corrections1823 |
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... soul accords with true reli- gion in the Scriptures . Without this standard , we shall either model our faith by our own pre - conceived notions of what is fit and reasonable , or be carried away by our feelings , and lose ourselves ...
... soul accords with true reli- gion in the Scriptures . Without this standard , we shall either model our faith by our own pre - conceived notions of what is fit and reasonable , or be carried away by our feelings , and lose ourselves ...
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... soul . " 66 Lastly Truth is the only solid foundation of peace and hap- piness . - There are cases , it is granted , in which the mind may rejoice in error , or be distressed by truth . False doctrine will operate like opium , filling ...
... soul . " 66 Lastly Truth is the only solid foundation of peace and hap- piness . - There are cases , it is granted , in which the mind may rejoice in error , or be distressed by truth . False doctrine will operate like opium , filling ...
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... soul be once roused from its slumber , especially if it be the subject of any true religion , it will find itself miserable . As soon might we expect to find happiness in the mind of one who has lost his way , and knoweth not whither he ...
... soul be once roused from its slumber , especially if it be the subject of any true religion , it will find itself miserable . As soon might we expect to find happiness in the mind of one who has lost his way , and knoweth not whither he ...
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... soul to know the right way , and walk in it , there is no reason to despair . Follow no man as your guide ; but go to your Bible , and your God , and there decide the question . You need not say in your heart , Who shall ascend into ...
... soul to know the right way , and walk in it , there is no reason to despair . Follow no man as your guide ; but go to your Bible , and your God , and there decide the question . You need not say in your heart , Who shall ascend into ...
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... soul ; and others who acknowledged a Deity , and a state of future rewards and punish- ments . Of the former kind were the Epicureans and Academics , of the latter the Platonists and Stoics ; for whose peculiarities we again refer our ...
... soul ; and others who acknowledged a Deity , and a state of future rewards and punish- ments . Of the former kind were the Epicureans and Academics , of the latter the Platonists and Stoics ; for whose peculiarities we again refer our ...
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Page 15 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Page 9 - To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts : as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness ; When your fathers tempted me : proved me, and saw my works.
Page 6 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 4 - Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand ; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures...
Page 17 - Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming : even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 19 - Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: 3 Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 36 - Religion agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces and the whole clergy in the convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord God...
Page 39 - WHOSOEVER will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 9 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Page 229 - I also profess and undoubtedly receive all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred canons, and GENERAL COUNCILS, and particularly by the holy council of Trent ; and likewise I also condemn, reject, and anathematize all things contrary thereto, and all heresies whatsoever, condemned, rejected, and anathematized by the church.