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... lives . There are perhaps few books of human compofition , in all respects ,, fo well adapted to produce this conviction and thefe effects , in their minds and conduct , as the ESSAY before us is . The aggregate influence of fuch a ...
... lives . There are perhaps few books of human compofition , in all respects ,, fo well adapted to produce this conviction and thefe effects , in their minds and conduct , as the ESSAY before us is . The aggregate influence of fuch a ...
Page ix
... lives of many of the most dignified of her clergy , have proved a ftumbling block to millions , and produced a rejection of the gofpel . In proteftant countries , though the creeds of the different churches be pure , have not Deifts had ...
... lives of many of the most dignified of her clergy , have proved a ftumbling block to millions , and produced a rejection of the gofpel . In proteftant countries , though the creeds of the different churches be pure , have not Deifts had ...
Page xxiv
... lives will be at an end , before it can be accomplished • Page . 172 II . OBJ . Chriftianity generates a timid pas- five fpirit , and is not calculated for forming great characters , or producing men who will prove eminent benefactors ...
... lives will be at an end , before it can be accomplished • Page . 172 II . OBJ . Chriftianity generates a timid pas- five fpirit , and is not calculated for forming great characters , or producing men who will prove eminent benefactors ...
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... live and fo die , without weakness , and without oftentation ? -When Plato de- fcribed his imaginary good man with all the shame of guilt , yet meriting the highest rewards of virtue , defcribes exactly the character of Jefus Chrift ...
... live and fo die , without weakness , and without oftentation ? -When Plato de- fcribed his imaginary good man with all the shame of guilt , yet meriting the highest rewards of virtue , defcribes exactly the character of Jefus Chrift ...
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... live in peace , because the feeds of war in the human heart are destroyed . But mere abftinence from injury would not fa- tisfy men of fuch a fpirit . No longer poffeffed with the evil demon , falfely called patriotifm , which taught ...
... live in peace , because the feeds of war in the human heart are destroyed . But mere abftinence from injury would not fa- tisfy men of fuch a fpirit . No longer poffeffed with the evil demon , falfely called patriotifm , which taught ...
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Page 182 - Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 88 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned...
Page 89 - I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 235 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day : and not to me only, but to all them that love his appearing '
Page 21 - What pre-possession, what blindness must it be to compare the son of Sophronicus to the son of Mary ! What an infinite disproportion there is between them ? Socrates dying without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was any thing more than a vain sophist.
Page 27 - God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God...
Page 173 - Let her see him in his most retired privacies} let her follow him to the mount, and hear his devotions and supplications to God. Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and hear his heavenly discourse.
Page 155 - And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he should live.
Page 60 - But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 118 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.