An Apology for the Disbelief of Revealed Religion: Consisting of Two Tracts Reprinted; the Latter with Some Additions1801 - Revelation - 198 pages |
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... Miracles and Re- velation is attended with much difficulty . I am fenfible that these my two remain- ing objections , of which I am about to speak , are far from being new : but the queftion is , -Have they ever received a fatisfactory ...
... Miracles and Re- velation is attended with much difficulty . I am fenfible that these my two remain- ing objections , of which I am about to speak , are far from being new : but the queftion is , -Have they ever received a fatisfactory ...
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... miracle : -the fame apology could not be made for punishing the Ca- naanitish Infants ; because it was very eafy to diftinguish them . The Bishop , in the next page , remarks that " He ( God ) made the Ifraelites the " executors of his ...
... miracle : -the fame apology could not be made for punishing the Ca- naanitish Infants ; because it was very eafy to diftinguish them . The Bishop , in the next page , remarks that " He ( God ) made the Ifraelites the " executors of his ...
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... Miracles and Revelation . -- When I was very young , and as yet to- tally ignorant of what philofophers have dif- covered concerning the immenfe fyftem of the universe , and the laws of the ma- terial world , this difficulty did not at ...
... Miracles and Revelation . -- When I was very young , and as yet to- tally ignorant of what philofophers have dif- covered concerning the immenfe fyftem of the universe , and the laws of the ma- terial world , this difficulty did not at ...
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... miracles recorded in the fcripture history . The idea of God , in most men's minds , is a very different thing from that con- ceived by a philosopher habituated to con- template the univerfe . What can fuch a contemplative man think ...
... miracles recorded in the fcripture history . The idea of God , in most men's minds , is a very different thing from that con- ceived by a philosopher habituated to con- template the univerfe . What can fuch a contemplative man think ...
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... for inftance , a perfon " fhould do what I should not be able to distinguish " from a real miracle , pretending to prove by it " that It is generally understood , I believe , that the Sober and Serious Reafons , & c . 43.
... for inftance , a perfon " fhould do what I should not be able to distinguish " from a real miracle , pretending to prove by it " that It is generally understood , I believe , that the Sober and Serious Reafons , & c . 43.
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Page 115 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 10 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out : It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire : 48 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 105 - But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny ? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this, last, even as unto thee.
Page 122 - In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an Angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Page 10 - And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, -than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 34 - As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come 'into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Page 80 - Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth ? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Page 82 - And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
Page 47 - Therefore I say unto you ; Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Page 34 - Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD ; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.