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... 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 heroic age , and by ...
... 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 heroic age , and by ...
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... Ignorance of Man . Since the monarchy of the universe is a dominion unlimited in extent , and everlasting in duration , the 1 See fragments in Butler's handwriting in British Museum Works , i , 357 . 2 Rolls Sermons , Preface , § 44 . 3 ...
... Ignorance of Man . Since the monarchy of the universe is a dominion unlimited in extent , and everlasting in duration , the 1 See fragments in Butler's handwriting in British Museum Works , i , 357 . 2 Rolls Sermons , Preface , § 44 . 3 ...
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... ignorance it follows that however perfect things are , they necessarily appear to be less perfect than they are . But our ignorance is not to be deplored , especially if we recognize it . We have capacities and knowledge fully equal to ...
... ignorance it follows that however perfect things are , they necessarily appear to be less perfect than they are . But our ignorance is not to be deplored , especially if we recognize it . We have capacities and knowledge fully equal to ...
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... Ignorance of Man ' ) , and with Chapter IV in Part II of the Analogy.1 God's natural government is a scheme quite beyond our comprehension . Anything whatever may , for aught we know to the contrary , be a necessary condition to any ...
... Ignorance of Man ' ) , and with Chapter IV in Part II of the Analogy.1 God's natural government is a scheme quite beyond our comprehension . Anything whatever may , for aught we know to the contrary , be a necessary condition to any ...
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Albert Edward Baker. to ignorance cannot be used to invalidate the proof of religion , seeing that it is a reminder , not of total but of partial ignorance , and as such is quite valid against any objection against the means which God ...
Albert Edward Baker. to ignorance cannot be used to invalidate the proof of religion , seeing that it is a reminder , not of total but of partial ignorance , and as such is quite valid against any objection against the means which God ...
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¹ Analogy 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 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.