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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... given . " As to the New Testament , there is not a ftated Faft appointed in it : We are indeed com- manded to fast and pray ; but we are no - where told how much , or how often , we are to do either ; but are left to chufe proper ...
... given . " As to the New Testament , there is not a ftated Faft appointed in it : We are indeed com- manded to fast and pray ; but we are no - where told how much , or how often , we are to do either ; but are left to chufe proper ...
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... given or taken with the fame View . As Fafting ought to be left to every Man's Discretion , because every Man is the best Judge of his Conftitution and his Confcience , fo ought it to be exercised with exceeding Care and Caution ...
... given or taken with the fame View . As Fafting ought to be left to every Man's Discretion , because every Man is the best Judge of his Conftitution and his Confcience , fo ought it to be exercised with exceeding Care and Caution ...
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... given to Men in the State of Nature , to find out the Will of God , and the Means of Self - preferva- tion . The Senfes are its fubor- dinate Inftruments and Spies : They bring it Intelligence ; and it forms a Judgment , and takes ...
... given to Men in the State of Nature , to find out the Will of God , and the Means of Self - preferva- tion . The Senfes are its fubor- dinate Inftruments and Spies : They bring it Intelligence ; and it forms a Judgment , and takes ...
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... given , but where Reafon was already given ; and the former cannot fubfift , where the latter does not . We may have worldly Wisdom without Piety ; but cannot poffefs Piety without Understanding ; nor does Grace , though given in the ...
... given , but where Reafon was already given ; and the former cannot fubfift , where the latter does not . We may have worldly Wisdom without Piety ; but cannot poffefs Piety without Understanding ; nor does Grace , though given in the ...
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... given them Reason as well as Grace . Indeed they are both the Gifts of God , only the one is ordinary , and the other is extra- ordinary . REASON , even without the Light of Re- velation , teaches us to inveftigate Nature , and praise ...
... given them Reason as well as Grace . Indeed they are both the Gifts of God , only the one is ordinary , and the other is extra- ordinary . REASON , even without the Light of Re- velation , teaches us to inveftigate Nature , and praise ...
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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.