The Posthumous Works ...T. and T. Longman, 1754 - 336 pages |
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... called Pedantry . YOUNG Preachers juft come from the Schools , are often tempted to fill their Ser- mons , with logical and metaphyfical Terms in explaining their Text , and feed their Hear- ers with fonorous Words of Vanity . This ...
... called Pedantry . YOUNG Preachers juft come from the Schools , are often tempted to fill their Ser- mons , with logical and metaphyfical Terms in explaining their Text , and feed their Hear- ers with fonorous Words of Vanity . This ...
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... called Authority . The Power of it is fo great and widely extenfive , that there is scarce any Perfon in the World entirely free from the Impreffion of it , even after their utmost Watchfulness and Care to avoid it . Our Parents and ...
... called Authority . The Power of it is fo great and widely extenfive , that there is scarce any Perfon in the World entirely free from the Impreffion of it , even after their utmost Watchfulness and Care to avoid it . Our Parents and ...
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... called in Question , but actually refuted and renounced . AGAIN , Was ever any thing more univerfally agreed among the Nation of the Poets and Critics than that Homer and Virgil are inimitable Writers of heroic Poems ? And whoever ...
... called in Question , but actually refuted and renounced . AGAIN , Was ever any thing more univerfally agreed among the Nation of the Poets and Critics than that Homer and Virgil are inimitable Writers of heroic Poems ? And whoever ...
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... called Alfred , and has bravely demonftrated there , beyond all poffible Exception , that both Vir- gil and Homer are often guilty of very grofs Blunders , Indecencies and fhameful Impro- prieties ; and that they were fo far from de ...
... called Alfred , and has bravely demonftrated there , beyond all poffible Exception , that both Vir- gil and Homer are often guilty of very grofs Blunders , Indecencies and fhameful Impro- prieties ; and that they were fo far from de ...
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... called Teftimony rather than Autho- rity . It is upon this Foot , that every Son or Daughter among Mankind are required to believe that fuch and fuch Perfons are their Parents , for they can never be inform'd of it but by the Dictates ...
... called Teftimony rather than Autho- rity . It is upon this Foot , that every Son or Daughter among Mankind are required to believe that fuch and fuch Perfons are their Parents , for they can never be inform'd of it but by the Dictates ...
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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.