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... less in a more heroic age , and by lowering its ethical demands to the mean at which they could be satisfied the eighteenth 1 Hobbes and Shaftesbury , for example . See notes to the Preface , and to Sermons I , V , etc. century set up ...
... less in a more heroic age , and by lowering its ethical demands to the mean at which they could be satisfied the eighteenth 1 Hobbes and Shaftesbury , for example . See notes to the Preface , and to Sermons I , V , etc. century set up ...
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... less well - informed replies to him , but the only competent criticism was that of Samuel Clarke , whose Boyle Lectures on the Being of God claimed to be a reply to Hobbes , Spinoza and Blount . The only Deist of whom we can say that he ...
... less well - informed replies to him , but the only competent criticism was that of Samuel Clarke , whose Boyle Lectures on the Being of God claimed to be a reply to Hobbes , Spinoza and Blount . The only Deist of whom we can say that he ...
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... less his guide in Natural Religion than in Natural Philosophy ( i.e. , physics ) . His illustrations are mathematical , and he claims that his philosophical arguments and ethical statements are as clear and necessary as mathematical ...
... less his guide in Natural Religion than in Natural Philosophy ( i.e. , physics ) . His illustrations are mathematical , and he claims that his philosophical arguments and ethical statements are as clear and necessary as mathematical ...
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... less ornate style . Tillotson , and the preachers of his time , shew the influence of such books as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress . And , thirdly , there was the influence of the coffee - house , and the habit of discussion and criticism ...
... less ornate style . Tillotson , and the preachers of his time , shew the influence of such books as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress . And , thirdly , there was the influence of the coffee - house , and the habit of discussion and criticism ...
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... less than two years . His appearance at this time was most reverend ; his face thin and pale , calm , venerable , and benevolent . He had long white hair and a patriarchal appearance . He never spoke in the House of Lords , his silence ...
... less than two years . His appearance at this time was most reverend ; his face thin and pale , calm , venerable , and benevolent . He had long white hair and a patriarchal appearance . He never spoke in the House of Lords , his silence ...
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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.