A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in England in the Last and Present Century: With Observations Upon Them, and Some Account of the Answers that Have Been Published Against Them. In Several Letters to a Friend, Τόμος 2B. Dod, 1755 - 483 σελίδες |
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... true Method of keeping the Lord's Day holy ; with Family and private Devo- tions . The Eighth Edition . By the fame Author . The Arguments of the Books and Chapters of the Holy Bible , with practical Obfervations . By J. F. Oftervald ...
... true Method of keeping the Lord's Day holy ; with Family and private Devo- tions . The Eighth Edition . By the fame Author . The Arguments of the Books and Chapters of the Holy Bible , with practical Obfervations . By J. F. Oftervald ...
Σελίδα xiv
... true divine revelation must have pro- duced , he endeavours to prove , that no fuch revela- tion was ever really given . His fcheme , contrary to bis own intention , tends to fhew the usefulness and neceffity of divine revelation ...
... true divine revelation must have pro- duced , he endeavours to prove , that no fuch revela- tion was ever really given . His fcheme , contrary to bis own intention , tends to fhew the usefulness and neceffity of divine revelation ...
Σελίδα xviii
... True genuine Chriftianity needs not fear the affaults of its ableft adverfaries . The CONCLUSION , in an address to Deifts and profeffed Chriftians . ERRAT A. Page . 12 , line 9 , for injurious , read ingenious . - P . 229 , 1. 2 , for ...
... True genuine Chriftianity needs not fear the affaults of its ableft adverfaries . The CONCLUSION , in an address to Deifts and profeffed Chriftians . ERRAT A. Page . 12 , line 9 , for injurious , read ingenious . - P . 229 , 1. 2 , for ...
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... true reason was , that I had not at that time read that Essay . The only piece which I had then read of that Gentleman's , was his Moral and Poli- tical Effays ; in which there was nothing that directly related to the Chriftian caufe ...
... true reason was , that I had not at that time read that Essay . The only piece which I had then read of that Gentleman's , was his Moral and Poli- tical Effays ; in which there was nothing that directly related to the Chriftian caufe ...
Σελίδα 32
... true : But it by no means follows , that we cannot ar- gue from the evident marks of wisdom and defign which we may obferve in this univerfe that we do know , because we do not know any thing of any other universe . This grand univerfal ...
... true : But it by no means follows , that we cannot ar- gue from the evident marks of wisdom and defign which we may obferve in this univerfe that we do know , because we do not know any thing of any other universe . This grand univerfal ...
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Σελίδα 62 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Σελίδα 434 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Σελίδα 10 - But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea, or the aptitude of the one to produce the other?
Σελίδα 82 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of...
Σελίδα 497 - God will bring every work into judgment, with every fecret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Σελίδα 61 - ... there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist.
Σελίδα 473 - God ? haft thou not known ? haft thou not heard, that the everlafting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no fearching of his underftanding. He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might, he increafeth ftrength.
Σελίδα 625 - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required : and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Σελίδα 352 - ... of the rants of the Portic, that we owe our virtue to ourselves, not to God. It would be equally false to say, that we owe our happiness to ourselves, not to God. But this may be said with truth, that God, when he gave us reason, left us to our free-will to make a proper, or improper, use of it: so that we are obliged to our Creator for a certain rule and sufficient means of arriving at happiness, and have none to blame but ourselves, when we fail of it.
Σελίδα 63 - But, according to the principle here explained, this subtraction with regard to all popular religions amounts to an entire annihilation, and therefore we may establish it as a maxim that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.