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... . that the works of the writer ( or group of writers ) are sufficiently illustrated and their value estimated in the light of our present knowledge . S. L. OLLARD . WILL SPENS . CONTENTS СНАР . I. THE TIMES OF BISHOP BUTLER ...
... . that the works of the writer ( or group of writers ) are sufficiently illustrated and their value estimated in the light of our present knowledge . S. L. OLLARD . WILL SPENS . CONTENTS СНАР . I. THE TIMES OF BISHOP BUTLER ...
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... illustrations are mathematical , and he claims that his philosophical arguments and ethical statements are as clear and necessary as mathematical demonstrations . In his answer to Butler's fifth letter criticizing his Boyle Lectures ...
... illustrations are mathematical , and he claims that his philosophical arguments and ethical statements are as clear and necessary as mathematical demonstrations . In his answer to Butler's fifth letter criticizing his Boyle Lectures ...
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... illustrations of this ' Pure Reason ' are the mathematical sciences . Butler values Reason very highly . It is the Candle of the Lord within us 1 and is the only faculty wherewith we can judge anything , including revelation itself ...
... illustrations of this ' Pure Reason ' are the mathematical sciences . Butler values Reason very highly . It is the Candle of the Lord within us 1 and is the only faculty wherewith we can judge anything , including revelation itself ...
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... illustration which one writer gives of the method is this : -The growing size of London bodes evil to England , because London is the heart of England , and a swollen heart is a sign of disease.2 Analogy , as some writers use it , is ...
... illustration which one writer gives of the method is this : -The growing size of London bodes evil to England , because London is the heart of England , and a swollen heart is a sign of disease.2 Analogy , as some writers use it , is ...
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... illustrated by the contradiction in the Gospels between What shall it profit a man , if he gain the whole world , and yet lose himself ? ' and ' If any man will come after me , let him deny himself . ' There is an ideal self which can ...
... illustrated by the contradiction in the Gospels between What shall it profit a man , if he gain the whole world , and yet lose himself ? ' and ' If any man will come after me , let him deny himself . ' There is an ideal self which can ...
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Analogy of Nature argument authority believe benevolence Bishop Butler Bishop of Bristol Bishop of Durham Boyle Lectures Bristol Butler's Analogy Chapter Christianity Church claims Clarke clergy conscience credible Deism Deists Descartes Divine doctrine doubt Durham duty Edition eighteenth century English Essay ethics evidence experience fact faculties faith God's Gospel happiness Haughton-le-Skerne Hobbes human nature Ibid ignorance Illustrations implies important infallibility influence interest J. H. Newman letter light LITURGICAL COLOURS live Logic Lord Lord Acton man's mankind Mark Pattison means method miracles modern moral government mystery natural religion Newton objections obligation Oriel College perfect persons preached Preface principles probability proof prophecy prove reason religious revelation rewards and punishments Rolls Sermons Roman says scheme scholasticism Scripture Secker self-love selfishness sense shews Spirit teaches theology things thought tion true truth universe virtue W. E. GLADSTONE whole writers
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Sida 13 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Sida 48 - And that when we are commanded to love the Lord our God, with all our heart, and with all our mind...
Sida 90 - And so I live, you see, Go through the world, try, prove, reject, Prefer, still struggling to effect My warfare ; happy that I can Be crossed and thwarted as a man, Not left in God's contempt apart, With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, fame in earth's paddock as her prize.
Sida 46 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Sida 44 - ... one may wish, is not in reality a sufficient motive of virtue in such a creature as man; but this reason joined with those affections which God has impressed upon his heart, and when these are allowed scope to exercise themselves, but under strict government and direction of reason, then it is we act suitably to our nature, and to the circumstances God has placed us in.
Sida 35 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Sida 33 - In Roman Catholic countries, people cannot pass a day without having religion recalled to their thoughts, by some or other memorial of it ; by some ceremony or public religious form occurring in their way; besides their frequent holidays, the short prayers they are daily called to, and the occasional devotions enjoined by confessors.
Sida 49 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
Sida 30 - Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost, is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing ! W.