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... common sense , was as ignorant of the necessity of mystery in religion as in life , and valued candour above all qualities in a writer , without realizing how difficult it is to be candid . Prudence would have meant less in a more ...
... common sense , was as ignorant of the necessity of mystery in religion as in life , and valued candour above all qualities in a writer , without realizing how difficult it is to be candid . Prudence would have meant less in a more ...
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... common sense , whose decisions are clear and certain , and must convince anyone who is not either a rogue or a fool . esting to notice that Tillotson in the seventeenth century appeals to reason against Rome in a way closely parallel to ...
... common sense , whose decisions are clear and certain , and must convince anyone who is not either a rogue or a fool . esting to notice that Tillotson in the seventeenth century appeals to reason against Rome in a way closely parallel to ...
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... common view exaggerates the immorality of the Res- toration period , for it forms its judgement from the Court and the theatre . It is very improbable that most of the people ever saw a play ( there were only two theatres in London ) ...
... common view exaggerates the immorality of the Res- toration period , for it forms its judgement from the Court and the theatre . It is very improbable that most of the people ever saw a play ( there were only two theatres in London ) ...
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... common sense of the intelligent classes of the time , and this probably explains the unusual popularity of his philo- sophical writings . His chief theological writing , for our present purpose , is the Reasonableness of Christianity ...
... common sense of the intelligent classes of the time , and this probably explains the unusual popularity of his philo- sophical writings . His chief theological writing , for our present purpose , is the Reasonableness of Christianity ...
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... common to almost all the theologians , both orthodox and liberal , of the period . Locke argued that Christianity is reasonable , the Deists claimed that the mysterious is not part of Christianity . There is a vast difference between ...
... common to almost all the theologians , both orthodox and liberal , of the period . Locke argued that Christianity is reasonable , the Deists claimed that the mysterious is not part of Christianity . There is a vast difference between ...
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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.