Discourses Preached at the Temple Church, and on Several Occasions: To which are Added Discourses on the Use and Intent of Prophecy, Together with Dissertations: a Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of London, a Letter on the Earthquake in MDCCL, and the Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1812 - Sermons, English |
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... Since the light of the Gospel has fhone through- out the world , nature has been much improving ; we see many things clearly , many things which reafon readily embraces , which nevertheless the world before was generally a stranger to ...
... Since the light of the Gospel has fhone through- out the world , nature has been much improving ; we see many things clearly , many things which reafon readily embraces , which nevertheless the world before was generally a stranger to ...
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... Since then in nothing else we are grown wifer than the heathen world , what probabi- lity is there that we should have grown wiser in re- ligion , if we had been left , as they were , to mere reafon and nature ? To this day there is no ...
... Since then in nothing else we are grown wifer than the heathen world , what probabi- lity is there that we should have grown wiser in re- ligion , if we had been left , as they were , to mere reafon and nature ? To this day there is no ...
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... Since then the end that men propose to them- felves by religion is fuch , it will teach us wherein the true excellency of religion confifts . If eternal life and future happiness are what we aim at , that will be the best religion ...
... Since then the end that men propose to them- felves by religion is fuch , it will teach us wherein the true excellency of religion confifts . If eternal life and future happiness are what we aim at , that will be the best religion ...
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... Since it is the perfection of religion to inftruct us how to please God ; and fince to please God , and to act according to the will of God , are but one and the fame thing ; it neceffarily follows , that must be the most perfect ...
... Since it is the perfection of religion to inftruct us how to please God ; and fince to please God , and to act according to the will of God , are but one and the fame thing ; it neceffarily follows , that must be the most perfect ...
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... Since then revelation , confidered as fuch , muft needs be the fureft guide in religion , every reafon- able man is bound to confider the pretenfions of revelation , when offered to him ; for no man can justify himself in relying merely ...
... Since then revelation , confidered as fuch , muft needs be the fureft guide in religion , every reafon- able man is bound to confider the pretenfions of revelation , when offered to him ; for no man can justify himself in relying merely ...
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Page 111 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 200 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound and I heal ; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 431 - And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Page 246 - Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet'; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.' '"Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 319 - And he said. Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Page 131 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 369 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 63 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
Page 272 - And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.