The Nature, Procedure, Extent, Value and Effects of a Rational Faith Considered: In Two Sermons Preach'd Before the University of Oxford, on March 11. and June 24. 1744. By William Dodwell ... |
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... Weight with Thofe , who with Induftry and Pleasure attend to every Cavil which can be raised a- gainst them ; as We have been told , there have been Those in former Ages , who have even arrived at Atheism , and of late We have heard of ...
... Weight with Thofe , who with Induftry and Pleasure attend to every Cavil which can be raised a- gainst them ; as We have been told , there have been Those in former Ages , who have even arrived at Atheism , and of late We have heard of ...
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... demonstrative in it felf , yet if it be difregarded , It must lose its Weight ; or if fo much Regard be paid to it , as to give it an Opportunity of fhining B 2 fhining in Evidence really unanswerable , yet if It be [ 11 ]
... demonstrative in it felf , yet if it be difregarded , It must lose its Weight ; or if fo much Regard be paid to it , as to give it an Opportunity of fhining B 2 fhining in Evidence really unanswerable , yet if It be [ 11 ]
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... Weight in this Scheme , and This Kind of Intuitive Knowledge , which was inftant and irrefiftible , must have left them entirely paffive , neither blameable nor praise- C worthy worthy in their Affent . Where there is no Pof- [ 17 ]
... Weight in this Scheme , and This Kind of Intuitive Knowledge , which was inftant and irrefiftible , must have left them entirely paffive , neither blameable nor praise- C worthy worthy in their Affent . Where there is no Pof- [ 17 ]
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... Weight , and let Us therefore examine in this Cafe what It will amount to . Let It be ob- served then , that whatever Errors are established in this Way , are not of equal Importance with the Truths that are hereby inculcated , and that ...
... Weight , and let Us therefore examine in this Cafe what It will amount to . Let It be ob- served then , that whatever Errors are established in this Way , are not of equal Importance with the Truths that are hereby inculcated , and that ...
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... Weight in Favour of a Religious Education , that tho ' It may fometimes establish fome Errors in particular Points , yet its gene- ral Principles are always right , and of more immediate practical Effect than its peculiar Miftakes . The ...
... Weight in Favour of a Religious Education , that tho ' It may fometimes establish fome Errors in particular Points , yet its gene- ral Principles are always right , and of more immediate practical Effect than its peculiar Miftakes . The ...
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Page 25 - Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the...
Page 75 - REFLECTIONS on the natural foundation of the high antiquity of government, arts and sciences, in Egypt.
Page 24 - School-Authors fay) deferve grace of congruity : yea, rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of fin.
Page 24 - WORKS done before the grace of Chrift, and the infpiration of his Spirit, are not pleafant to God ; forafmuch as they fpring not of faith in Jefus Chrift, neither do they make men meet to receive grace...
Page 75 - Anglia Judaica : or the Hiftory and Antiquities of the Jews in England.
Page 13 - Spirit in righteousness and true holiness — that by his holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by his merciful guiding may perform the same...
Page 75 - The Cafe of the Minifterial Maintenance ftated. A Sermon preach'd at the Triennial Vifitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Lord Bifliop of Sarum, by John Spry BD The DoSrine of a Future State, neceflfary to the Welfare and Support of Civil Government.
Page 4 - That reason, or the intellectual faculty, could not possibly, both from its own nature, and that of religion, be the principle intended by God to lead us into a true faith.
Page 28 - Christ is preached ; and I therein do rejoice, yea and will rejoice.
Page 74 - Thus fulfilling the true Defign of our own Faith, We may recover Others to the Acknowledgment of it...