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... object was needed to answer the prefent purpose . Such a treatife it has been my endeavour to furnish . But that the reader may judge of the Effay ac- cording to the writer's defign , I beg leave to lay before him the plan I perfued ...
... object was needed to answer the prefent purpose . Such a treatife it has been my endeavour to furnish . But that the reader may judge of the Effay ac- cording to the writer's defign , I beg leave to lay before him the plan I perfued ...
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... object ftill in view ; and fhould he be fpared to complete fome things in which he is engaged , he will en- deavour to fulfil his promise . If it be asked why an effay which was intended for France alone , is printed in the English ...
... object ftill in view ; and fhould he be fpared to complete fome things in which he is engaged , he will en- deavour to fulfil his promise . If it be asked why an effay which was intended for France alone , is printed in the English ...
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... object is to teach you how to ferve him , and how to attain the highest felicity . " But I am fure it is not true . " Millions have read and acknowledged its truth : among thefe have been the most confcientious of men , and the firft lu ...
... object is to teach you how to ferve him , and how to attain the highest felicity . " But I am fure it is not true . " Millions have read and acknowledged its truth : among thefe have been the most confcientious of men , and the firft lu ...
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... objects of worship . Ignorance of the nature of God has been uniformly attended with ignorance of man's duty and condition , and of a future ftate of being ; and as may naturally be ex- pected , with the most dreadful depravity of man ...
... objects of worship . Ignorance of the nature of God has been uniformly attended with ignorance of man's duty and condition , and of a future ftate of being ; and as may naturally be ex- pected , with the most dreadful depravity of man ...
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... object of their worship . Mahomet , it has been remarked , is a peculiar favourite with the oppofers of christianity . Let us attend to his representation of God : only be it remem- bered that he had the Old and New Teftament to copy ...
... object of their worship . Mahomet , it has been remarked , is a peculiar favourite with the oppofers of christianity . Let us attend to his representation of God : only be it remem- bered that he had the Old and New Teftament to copy ...
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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.