The Causes of the Corruption of ChristianityJackson and Walford, 1834 - 432 pagine |
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Pagina 10
... common error to suppose that great men give a character to their age . It is more true that every age imparts more or less of its own character to its leading men . Distinguished minds concentrate the spirit of their day ; and though as ...
... common error to suppose that great men give a character to their age . It is more true that every age imparts more or less of its own character to its leading men . Distinguished minds concentrate the spirit of their day ; and though as ...
Pagina 17
... ground with himself . The common gaze would overlook nearly every thing to which his more disciplined mind attaches value . It can read but very C LECT . I. partially what he has designed to convey FROM TENDENCIES IN HUMAN NATURE . 17.
... ground with himself . The common gaze would overlook nearly every thing to which his more disciplined mind attaches value . It can read but very C LECT . I. partially what he has designed to convey FROM TENDENCIES IN HUMAN NATURE . 17.
Pagina 22
... common with matters for which nothing supernatural is claimed , to the ordinary influence of events and circum- stances . In this case , it may be said , it ought not to occasion surprise if the corruptions of Christianity should be of ...
... common with matters for which nothing supernatural is claimed , to the ordinary influence of events and circum- stances . In this case , it may be said , it ought not to occasion surprise if the corruptions of Christianity should be of ...
Pagina 32
... common ? It is the opposition of wisdom to folly , of the spiritual to the sensual , of an order of things which would imbue the earthly with the heavenly , to another which would bring down the heavenly to the level of the earthly . It ...
... common ? It is the opposition of wisdom to folly , of the spiritual to the sensual , of an order of things which would imbue the earthly with the heavenly , to another which would bring down the heavenly to the level of the earthly . It ...
Pagina 39
... common prepossessions in its favour . It will not , of course , be said , in so many words , that where much is wrong all must be wrong ; - or that because the many believe without ade- quate testimony , the few should not be expected ...
... common prepossessions in its favour . It will not , of course , be said , in so many words , that where much is wrong all must be wrong ; - or that because the many believe without ade- quate testimony , the few should not be expected ...
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Pagina 15 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy...
Pagina 42 - Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent, and he shall know them ? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them : but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Pagina 397 - Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Pagina 368 - That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us : and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
Pagina 73 - I receive not honour from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Pagina 347 - With this single alteration, it serves as exactly for all the purposes of the Popish, as it did for the Pagan worship, for which it was built. For as in the old temple every one might find the god of his country, and address himself to that deity whose religion he was most devoted...
Pagina 215 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Pagina 398 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Pagina 149 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Pagina 372 - God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts, to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ...