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... live a virtuous life ; we must repent of our sins ; and , after death , the good will be rewarded and the wicked punished . No other revelation is necessary . There is much in Lord Herbert's work that appears again in the discussions of ...
... live a virtuous life ; we must repent of our sins ; and , after death , the good will be rewarded and the wicked punished . No other revelation is necessary . There is much in Lord Herbert's work that appears again in the discussions of ...
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... live . Pascal objected to the Jesuits that in religion what is perfectly clear is seldom true . Life is so com- plicated , and the needs and possibilities of human nature are so varied , that what is clear and distinct proves itself ...
... live . Pascal objected to the Jesuits that in religion what is perfectly clear is seldom true . Life is so com- plicated , and the needs and possibilities of human nature are so varied , that what is clear and distinct proves itself ...
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... live by reason are Christians , and Socrates and the like are of this number . Collins made many slips in his book , and Bentley gained a great popular reputation by his reply to him . But it was upon the weak points in the case , the ...
... live by reason are Christians , and Socrates and the like are of this number . Collins made many slips in his book , and Bentley gained a great popular reputation by his reply to him . But it was upon the weak points in the case , the ...
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... lives concerning a received opinion ; ' 1 which shows that in some matters Butler thought and spoke much as other undergraduates have done . Two of the letters to Dr. Clarke refer to his life in Oxford , 2 and reveal a distaste for the ...
... lives concerning a received opinion ; ' 1 which shows that in some matters Butler thought and spoke much as other undergraduates have done . Two of the letters to Dr. Clarke refer to his life in Oxford , 2 and reveal a distaste for the ...
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... lives of some of the Romish saints , and their books of mystical piety . ' It is interesting to find that this same Mr. Lindsey had sup- plied Butler with some of the works of Roman saints . This is a curious commentary , not only on ...
... lives of some of the Romish saints , and their books of mystical piety . ' It is interesting to find that this same Mr. Lindsey had sup- plied Butler with some of the works of Roman saints . This is a curious commentary , not only on ...
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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.