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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... Name of God , to patronize their Im- postures . I fhall give some Instances . WHEN they have had a mind to flatter a cruel or a foolish Prince , in order to make him ferve their Purposes , and do their Drudgery : they have inftantly ...
... Name of God , to patronize their Im- postures . I fhall give some Instances . WHEN they have had a mind to flatter a cruel or a foolish Prince , in order to make him ferve their Purposes , and do their Drudgery : they have inftantly ...
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... Name of God , or , which is much more powerful with the Mob , the Name of the Church , to any Affertion , or any Claim , or any Invention of theirs , be it ever fo monstrous , or mischievous ; and in- ftantly it becomes , with weak ...
... Name of God , or , which is much more powerful with the Mob , the Name of the Church , to any Affertion , or any Claim , or any Invention of theirs , be it ever fo monstrous , or mischievous ; and in- ftantly it becomes , with weak ...
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... Name of Christianity , which are oppofite to the Nature of Christianity : Religion is pre- tended , and Power meant . In confequence of this , Duty is converted into Sin , and Sin into Duty . Thus , the worfhipping of God accord- ing to ...
... Name of Christianity , which are oppofite to the Nature of Christianity : Religion is pre- tended , and Power meant . In confequence of this , Duty is converted into Sin , and Sin into Duty . Thus , the worfhipping of God accord- ing to ...
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... Name of Public - spirit , promote moderate Eating and Drinking . IT is a Principle in Politics , that a happy People will never bear a tyrannical Prince : He must therefore make his Subjects wretched , before he can make himself ...
... Name of Public - spirit , promote moderate Eating and Drinking . IT is a Principle in Politics , that a happy People will never bear a tyrannical Prince : He must therefore make his Subjects wretched , before he can make himself ...
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... Names ; for farther than Names the Vulgar inquire not . FROM this Caufe , Religion and Liberty : flourish , where Reason and Knowledge are en-- couraged ; and where - ever the latter are ftifled , the former are extinguished . In Turky ...
... Names ; for farther than Names the Vulgar inquire not . FROM this Caufe , Religion and Liberty : flourish , where Reason and Knowledge are en-- couraged ; and where - ever the latter are ftifled , the former are extinguished . In Turky ...
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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.