The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation Shewn from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World: Especially with Respect to the Knowledge and Worship of the One True God : a Rule of Moral Duty : and a State of Future Rewards and Punishments. To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Discourse on Natural and Revealed Religion, Volume 2The University Press, 1819 |
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Pagina x
... common life , people ought to follow probable appear- ances . And if this is to be done in what relates to our pre- sent temporal interest and advantage , why not in that which relates to our highest happiness ? The more important any ...
... common life , people ought to follow probable appear- ances . And if this is to be done in what relates to our pre- sent temporal interest and advantage , why not in that which relates to our highest happiness ? The more important any ...
Pagina xvii
... confined chiefly to persons of eminence , or to those of philosophical minds , and afforded small encouragement to the common kind VOL . II . a ) and J ) e of pious and virtuous persons . The rewards of Elysium CONTENTS . xvii.
... confined chiefly to persons of eminence , or to those of philosophical minds , and afforded small encouragement to the common kind VOL . II . a ) and J ) e of pious and virtuous persons . The rewards of Elysium CONTENTS . xvii.
Pagina 13
... common life , that there are few people who have any doubt " whether these things might not be otherwise . " And Mr. Barbeyrac , in his notes upon it , after having observed that " there is a manifest proportion between the maxims of na ...
... common life , that there are few people who have any doubt " whether these things might not be otherwise . " And Mr. Barbeyrac , in his notes upon it , after having observed that " there is a manifest proportion between the maxims of na ...
Pagina 22
... common to all men , and which cannot be so properly ascribed to an instinct of nature , or the evident con- clusions of reason , as to a perpetual and almost uninterrupted tradition from the first ages , such as the slaying and offering ...
... common to all men , and which cannot be so properly ascribed to an instinct of nature , or the evident con- clusions of reason , as to a perpetual and almost uninterrupted tradition from the first ages , such as the slaying and offering ...
Pagina 26
... common sense of mankind , as the precepts prescribing the honouring our pa- rents , and forbidding to kill , steal , and commit adultery , were bound upon them by express laws from God himself , and en- forced by his own divine ...
... common sense of mankind , as the precepts prescribing the honouring our pa- rents , and forbidding to kill , steal , and commit adultery , were bound upon them by express laws from God himself , and en- forced by his own divine ...
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Pagina 121 - For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God...
Pagina 212 - With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Pagina 215 - God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving : 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.
Pagina 348 - Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God...
Pagina 350 - But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Pagina 27 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Pagina 357 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him?
Pagina 27 - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? and what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Pagina 348 - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him : the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Pagina 362 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shall have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good.