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... doctrines , but taught the means of living a virtuous , useful , unselfish life . Difficulties might be ignored . Doubts were waste of thought . These writers offered , in the infallibility of the reason of their own age , the best ...
... doctrines , but taught the means of living a virtuous , useful , unselfish life . Difficulties might be ignored . Doubts were waste of thought . These writers offered , in the infallibility of the reason of their own age , the best ...
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... , -the spread of Independency , insisting on the right of each local Christian community to settle its own doctrine and religious practice ; the most religious form in which theological individualism ex- pressed itself , 4 BISHOP BUTLER.
... , -the spread of Independency , insisting on the right of each local Christian community to settle its own doctrine and religious practice ; the most religious form in which theological individualism ex- pressed itself , 4 BISHOP BUTLER.
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... doctrine of Spinoza's system , and any real distinction between God and the Universe was to him unthinkable , so that there was no place in his philo- sophy for miracles , free - will , or revelation , as these were understood by ...
... doctrine of Spinoza's system , and any real distinction between God and the Universe was to him unthinkable , so that there was no place in his philo- sophy for miracles , free - will , or revelation , as these were understood by ...
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... doctrinal truth . All the deistical and semi - deistical writers believed in free - will , it is true , but Spinoza's attitude towards revelation and miracles had much influence in the next sixty years . Spinoza , like Descartes , was a ...
... doctrinal truth . All the deistical and semi - deistical writers believed in free - will , it is true , but Spinoza's attitude towards revelation and miracles had much influence in the next sixty years . Spinoza , like Descartes , was a ...
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... Doctrine Can Be Properly Called a Mystery . The title describes his general position . Toland had been brought up a Roman Catholic . He was an attractive , disreputable figure , travelled , well- read , a writer of begging letters , and ...
... Doctrine Can Be Properly Called a Mystery . The title describes his general position . Toland had been brought up a Roman Catholic . He was an attractive , disreputable figure , travelled , well- read , a writer of begging letters , and ...
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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.