The consequence of my long and uninterrupted researches into religious truth has been that I have found the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral principles, and better adapted for the use of rational beings, than any other which have come to my... The Annual biography and obituary - Page 3011834Full view - About this book
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pages
...publication before us. ' " The consequence of my long and uninterrupted researches into religious truth has been, that I have found the doctrines of Christ...better adapted for the use of rational beings, than any others which have come to my knowledge ; and have also found Hindoos in general more superstitious... | |
| Rammohun Roy (Raja) - Unitarianism - 1823 - 358 pages
...Testament, in his " long and uninterrupted researches into religious truth," he found, he asserts, " the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral principles,...for the use of rational beings than any other which had come to his knowledge."* The doctrine of the Trinity, however, which appeared to his mind quite... | |
| English literature - 1824 - 696 pages
...perusal of which he asserts, that, " In his long and uninterrupted researches into religious truth, he found the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral...for the use of rational beings, than any other which had come to his knowledge. The doctrine of the Trinity, however, which appeared to his mind quite as... | |
| John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 pages
...thoughts toward the Christian religion, and his choice at once was fixed. His words are these: ' I found the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral...for the use of rational beings, than any other which had come within my knowledge.' It was not, however, until he had spent some years in the acquisition... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1819 - 808 pages
...departure from India. "'The consequence of my long and uninterrupted researches into religions troth has been, that I have found the doctrines of Christ more conducive tii moral principles, and better adapted for the use of rational beings, than any others which hare... | |
| Peter Williams - 1831 - 272 pages
...his thoughts toward the Christian Religion, and his choice at once was fixed. His words are these: "I found the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral...for the use of rational beings, than any other which had come within my knowledge." It was not, however, until he had spent some years in the acquisition... | |
| Unitarianism - 1831 - 442 pages
...religious truth," he found, he says, '• the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral principles, an4 better adapted for the use of rational beings, than any other which had come to his knowledge." The doctrine of the Trinity, however, which appeared to his mind quite... | |
| English literature - 1832 - 564 pages
...his thoughts toward the Christian religion, and his choice at once was fixed. His words are these: '1 found the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral...for the use of rational beings, than any other which had come within my knowledge.' It was not, however, until he had spent some years in the acquisition... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 656 pages
...the New Testament, in his "long and uninterrupted researches into religious truth, he found (he says) the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral principles,...for the use of rational beings, than any other which had come to his knowledge." As the most likely method of acquiring a correct knowledge of his doctrines,... | |
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