Letters to a Young Lady: In which the Duties and Character of Women are Considered, Chiefly with a Reference to Prevailing Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... less contradictory to the fober notions of ecclefiaftical gradation ; for it must be recollected , that , though fome of its members may be in reality enlightened Chriftians , the deciding ma- jority are ignorant , and confequently ...
... less contradictory to the fober notions of ecclefiaftical gradation ; for it must be recollected , that , though fome of its members may be in reality enlightened Chriftians , the deciding ma- jority are ignorant , and confequently ...
Page 102
... less decided tone . When an author's tenets are founded folely on the authority of the English translation of the New Testament , which may chance to convey more or less than the ori- ginal fairly implies , a certain degree of ...
... less decided tone . When an author's tenets are founded folely on the authority of the English translation of the New Testament , which may chance to convey more or less than the ori- ginal fairly implies , a certain degree of ...
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... less exception- able mode of pardoning finners might have been adopted . If they plead , that the refurrection of Christ removes all idea of injustice from their explanation of this proceeding , we may reply , that that event is equally ...
... less exception- able mode of pardoning finners might have been adopted . If they plead , that the refurrection of Christ removes all idea of injustice from their explanation of this proceeding , we may reply , that that event is equally ...
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... fub- tile fluid which can penetrate the most dense bodies , nay even when we can analyze ourselves and name the organ of consciousness , or diffect the minute veffels of of intellectual perception , we may with less apparent audacity 196.
... fub- tile fluid which can penetrate the most dense bodies , nay even when we can analyze ourselves and name the organ of consciousness , or diffect the minute veffels of of intellectual perception , we may with less apparent audacity 196.
Page 197
... less apparent audacity talk of the suprema- cy of fovereign reason , and refuse to ad- mit as truths what he cannot fully com- prehend . In many inftances , we fee only the immediate agent by which God acts in the material world . In ...
... less apparent audacity talk of the suprema- cy of fovereign reason , and refuse to ad- mit as truths what he cannot fully com- prehend . In many inftances , we fee only the immediate agent by which God acts in the material world . In ...
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Page 248 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 131 - THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowfhip of the Holy Ghoft, be, with us all evermore.
Page 145 - I know there is no other name under heaven by which men can be saved.
Page 243 - Whofo eateth my flefh, and drinketh my blood, . hath eternal life, and I will raife him up at the laft day.
Page 303 - that *' there is a time to weep as well as a " time to laugh, a time to dance, and a *
Page 242 - ... 64 But there are fome of you that believe not. For Jefus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who fhould betray him.
Page 182 - ... which eye hath not feen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 81 - fhall the know-*' ledge >of the Lord cover the earth as
Page 351 - Arabs, like other Orientals, hold that, in such matters, man is saved, not by faith, but by want of faith. They have also a saying not unlike ours— " She partly is to blame who has been tried, He comes too near who comes to be denied.
Page 271 - if any provide not for his own, <£ and efpecially for thofe of his own " houfe, he hath denied the faith, and is