The Posthumous Works ...T. and T. Longman, 1754 - 336 pages |
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... Friend , if you would perfwade him to learn any thing from you ; and this is one great Reason why there is fo little Success on either Side between two Difputants or controverfial Writers , because they are fo ready to interest their ...
... Friend , if you would perfwade him to learn any thing from you ; and this is one great Reason why there is fo little Success on either Side between two Difputants or controverfial Writers , because they are fo ready to interest their ...
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... Friends should immediately be convinced and receive the Truth : Habitude in a particular Way of thinking , as well as in most other Things , obtains the Force of Nature , and you can't expect to wean a Man from his accuftom'd Errors but ...
... Friends should immediately be convinced and receive the Truth : Habitude in a particular Way of thinking , as well as in most other Things , obtains the Force of Nature , and you can't expect to wean a Man from his accuftom'd Errors but ...
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... Friends , our Neighbours , the Cuftom of the Country where we dwell , and the established Opinions of Mankind , form our Belief ; The Great , the Pious , the Learned , and the Ancient , the King , the Priest , and the Philofopher , are ...
... Friends , our Neighbours , the Cuftom of the Country where we dwell , and the established Opinions of Mankind , form our Belief ; The Great , the Pious , the Learned , and the Ancient , the King , the Priest , and the Philofopher , are ...
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... Friend into more juft Ideas of the Truth , ( viz . ) that the Soul of Chrift exifted three Days in the State of Separation from his Bo- dy , or was in the invifible World , which might be originally called Hell in English , as well as ...
... Friend into more juft Ideas of the Truth , ( viz . ) that the Soul of Chrift exifted three Days in the State of Separation from his Bo- dy , or was in the invifible World , which might be originally called Hell in English , as well as ...
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... Friends , left he should be thought to have preached himself , and not Chrift Jefus his Lord : He has been ready to wish he had entertained the Au- dience in a more unlearned Manner and on a more vulgar Subject , left the Servants and ...
... Friends , left he should be thought to have preached himself , and not Chrift Jefus his Lord : He has been ready to wish he had entertained the Au- dience in a more unlearned Manner and on a more vulgar Subject , left the Servants and ...
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Page 79 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Page 74 - ... the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Page 9 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 82 - Then they that gladly received the word were baptized ; and the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls.
Page 313 - Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard : I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Page 81 - Moreover brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea ; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud, and in the sea...
Page 70 - Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Page 11 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 7 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming in the which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 86 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.