The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation Shewn from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World: Especially with Respect to the Knowledge and Worship of the One True God : a Rule of Moral Duty : and a State of Future Rewards and Punishments. To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Discourse on Natural and Revealed Religion, Volym 2The University Press, 1819 |
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... taught that the world was formed and brought into its present order by God , yet held the eternity of matter ; and few if any of them believed God to be the Creator of the world in the proper sense . Many of them , especially after the ...
... taught that the world was formed and brought into its present order by God , yet held the eternity of matter ; and few if any of them believed God to be the Creator of the world in the proper sense . Many of them , especially after the ...
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... taught the first men the chief heads of natural " law , which were afterwards preserved and spread among " their descendants by means of education and custom : yet " this does not hinder , but that the knowledge of these laws " may be ...
... taught the first men the chief heads of natural " law , which were afterwards preserved and spread among " their descendants by means of education and custom : yet " this does not hinder , but that the knowledge of these laws " may be ...
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... taught , solely and entirely from the researches and disquisi- tions of their own reason , and disclaimed their having had any assistance , with regard to those truths and principles , from tradition or divine instruction . And it is no ...
... taught , solely and entirely from the researches and disquisi- tions of their own reason , and disclaimed their having had any assistance , with regard to those truths and principles , from tradition or divine instruction . And it is no ...
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... taught or instructed , they know little or nothing about them . And even as to persons of philosophical minds , who apply themselves to abstract inquiries , and professedly search into the nature of things , how apt they are , when ...
... taught or instructed , they know little or nothing about them . And even as to persons of philosophical minds , who apply themselves to abstract inquiries , and professedly search into the nature of things , how apt they are , when ...
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... taught to the force of their own reason . " It was not the manner of the an- cients to form systems and theories , and to demonstrate their doctrine by causes and effects . They delivered their tenets simply , not in a way of ...
... taught to the force of their own reason . " It was not the manner of the an- cients to form systems and theories , and to demonstrate their doctrine by causes and effects . They delivered their tenets simply , not in a way of ...
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Sida 360 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Sida 272 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Sida 323 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Sida 360 - ... and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Sida 210 - What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light : and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Sida 264 - Sit igitur hoc iam a principio persuasum civibus, dominos esse omnium rerum ac moderatores deos, eaque, quae gerantur, eorum geri iudicio ac numine, eosdemque optime de genere hominum mereri et, qualis quisque sit, quid agat, quid in se admittat, qua mente, qua pietate colat religiones, intueri piorumque et impiorum habere rationem ; 16 his enim rebus inbutae mentes haud sane abhorrebunt ab utili aut a vera sententia.
Sida 333 - Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Sida 325 - I perceive, that God is no respecter of persons ; but in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Sida 87 - God, and could not out of the good " things that are seen know him that is : neither by consider" ing the works did they acknowledge the workmaster ; but " deemed either fire or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of " the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to " be the gods which govern the world.
Sida 154 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves...