The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler, D.C.L., Late Lord Bishop of Durham, Τόμος 1at the Clarendon Press, 1844 |
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Σελίδα xiii
... supposition of an equality amongst " mankind , than the constitution and laws of other countries ; " he goes on to observe , that " this plainly requires , that more particular regard should be had to the education of the " lower people ...
... supposition of an equality amongst " mankind , than the constitution and laws of other countries ; " he goes on to observe , that " this plainly requires , that more particular regard should be had to the education of the " lower people ...
Σελίδα xxiv
... supposition is confirmed from another circumstance , that the natural government of God , under which we now live , is also moral ; in which rewards and punishments are the conse- quences of actions , considered as virtuous and vicious ...
... supposition is confirmed from another circumstance , that the natural government of God , under which we now live , is also moral ; in which rewards and punishments are the conse- quences of actions , considered as virtuous and vicious ...
Σελίδα xxv
... supposing it possible , at all af- fect either the general proof of religion , or its external evidencek . Still objections may be made against the wisdom and good- ness of the Divine government , to which analogy , which can only shew ...
... supposing it possible , at all af- fect either the general proof of religion , or its external evidencek . Still objections may be made against the wisdom and good- ness of the Divine government , to which analogy , which can only shew ...
Σελίδα xxviii
... supposing a revelation to be really given , it is highly probable beforehand , that it must contain many things appearing to us liable to ob- jections . The acknowledged dispensation of nature is very different from what we should have ...
... supposing a revelation to be really given , it is highly probable beforehand , that it must contain many things appearing to us liable to ob- jections . The acknowledged dispensation of nature is very different from what we should have ...
Σελίδα xxxi
... suppositions ; nor is it Christianity that hath put us into this state . We learn also from the same Scriptures , what experience and the use of expiatory sacrifices from the most early times might have taught us , that repentance alone ...
... suppositions ; nor is it Christianity that hath put us into this state . We learn also from the same Scriptures , what experience and the use of expiatory sacrifices from the most early times might have taught us , that repentance alone ...
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Σελίδα 267 - And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Σελίδα 43 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Σελίδα 184 - ... should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind, several thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture.
Σελίδα 190 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Σελίδα 210 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying ; Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Σελίδα 191 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all...
Σελίδα 208 - For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Σελίδα 43 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Σελίδα 263 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Σελίδα 47 - ... may do; but in rewarding the righteous and punishing the wicked; in rendering to men according to their actions, considered as good or evil. And the perfection of moral government consists in doing this, with regard to all intelligent creatures, in an exact proportion to their personal merits or demerits.