The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated: To which is Prefixed, a Discourse by Way of General Preface: Containing Some Account Of, the Life, Writings and Character of the Author. By Richard Hurd, Volume 1

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Thomas Tegg, 1846

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Pagina 502 - But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
Pagina 386 - I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth : I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Pagina 386 - Surely God is in thee ; and there is none else, there is no god. 15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Pagina 389 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves...
Pagina 370 - Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou.
Pagina 237 - Polydorus tells a story from the root of the myrtle, that the barbarous inhabitants of the country having pierced him with spears and arrows, the wood which was left in his body took root in his wounds, and gave birth to that bleeding tree.
Pagina 100 - To ask then whether ridicule be a test of truth, is, in other words, to ask whether that which is ridiculous can be morally true, can be just and becoming; or whether that which is just and becoming can be ridiculous. A question that does not deserve a serious answer.
Pagina 389 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Pagina 193 - Each of the pagan gods had, besides the public and open, a secret worship paid unto him, to which none were admitted but those who had been selected by preparatory ceremonies, called initiation. This secret worship was termed the Mysteries.
Pagina 110 - as very little short of mathematical certainty," and " to which nothing but a mere physical possibility of the contrary can be opposed;" and he declares his only difficulty to be in " telling whether the pleasure of the discovery or the wonder that it is now to make be the greater.

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