Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious SubjectsJohn Pemberton, 1731 - 315 pagine |
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Pagina 142 - They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities : and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people ; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Pagina 162 - What a confused chaos ! What a subject of contradiction ! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth ; the great depository and guardian of truth, and yet a mere huddle of uncertainty ; the glory and the scandal of the universe.
Pagina 4 - ... and remiss in our inquiries about it. And all our actions or designs ought to bend so very different a way, according as we are either encouraged or forbidden, to embrace the hope of eternal rewards, that it is...
Pagina 6 - ... nothing left, but the miserable chance of annihilation, or of hell. There is not any reflection which can have more reality than this, as there is none which has greater terror. Let us set the bravest face on our condition, and play the heroes as artfully as we can ; yet see here the issue which attends the goodliest life upon earth. It is in vain for men to turn aside their thoughts...
Pagina 142 - And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be : For they are a very froward generation, Children in whom is no faith.
Pagina i - ... too great an application to his studies in his youth, he contracted that ill habit of body, which, after a tedious sickness, carried him off in the fortieth year of his age ; and the whole history we have of his life till that time, is but one continued account of the behaviour of a noble soul struggling under innumerable pains and distempers.
Pagina 8 - I see nothing but infinitieson all sides, which devour and swallow me up like an atom, or like a shadow, which endures but a single instant, and is never to return.
Pagina 6 - ... yet see here the issue which attends the goodliest life upon earth ! It is in vain for men to turn aside their thoughts from this eternity which awaits them, as if they were able to destroy it, by denying it a place in their imagination. It subsists in spite of them ; it...
Pagina 53 - There is, indeed, an infinite distance between the certainty of winning and the certainty of losing, but the...
Pagina 3 - ... towards the instruction of their minds, when they have spent some hours in reading the scriptures, and have asked some questions of a clergyman concerning the articles of faith. When this is done, they declare to all the world, that they have consulted books and men without success. I shall be excused, if I refrain not from telling such men, that this neglect of theirs is insupportable.