The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen, Volume 2J. Peele, 1743 |
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... Matter , that I do not think , that any Direction ought to be taken about Fafting , but from our Conftitution , or our Physician . If it be our Duty to faft on certain Days , no Tribe of Priests can difpenfe with the Pleasure and the ...
... Matter , that I do not think , that any Direction ought to be taken about Fafting , but from our Conftitution , or our Physician . If it be our Duty to faft on certain Days , no Tribe of Priests can difpenfe with the Pleasure and the ...
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... Matters of Devotion ; and a blind Accept- ance of all their Schemes , Dreams and For- geries in Matters of Faith . Now here is no Church at all , but , on one hand , the Invention and Impofition of deceitful and tyrannical Men ...
... Matters of Devotion ; and a blind Accept- ance of all their Schemes , Dreams and For- geries in Matters of Faith . Now here is no Church at all , but , on one hand , the Invention and Impofition of deceitful and tyrannical Men ...
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... matter whether you live like a Christian › or no , provided you do not break the Peace of the Church , but if you do , your being a Saint will not atone for it , nor ftand you in the leaft Stead . IF I do all I can to please God , I ...
... matter whether you live like a Christian › or no , provided you do not break the Peace of the Church , but if you do , your being a Saint will not atone for it , nor ftand you in the leaft Stead . IF I do all I can to please God , I ...
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... Matter , I can affure you ; for no one was fuffered to read those Tranflations without a fpecial Licence , which was dangerous to ask for , and rendered a Man fufpected of heretical Pravity ; and the Priest never granted it but to thofe ...
... Matter , I can affure you ; for no one was fuffered to read those Tranflations without a fpecial Licence , which was dangerous to ask for , and rendered a Man fufpected of heretical Pravity ; and the Priest never granted it but to thofe ...
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... Matter , I fhall premife two things : First , That the End and Design of reading the Bible , is to find out the Will of God , or the Mean- ing which God holds forth to us therein , that we may regulate our Belief , and form our Pra ...
... Matter , I fhall premife two things : First , That the End and Design of reading the Bible , is to find out the Will of God , or the Mean- ing which God holds forth to us therein , that we may regulate our Belief , and form our Pra ...
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Page 219 - He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected : hereby know we that we are in Him.
Page 248 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 226 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Page 144 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page 176 - And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said ; John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Page 222 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 227 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 145 - Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Page 225 - The inspired record describes him as "a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Page 250 - So that riot only this our craft is in danger to be fet at nought ; but alfo that the temple of the great goddefs Diana fhould be defpifed, and her magnificence fhould be deftroy28 ed, whom all Afia, and the world, worfhippeth.