A Summons of Wakening; Or, The Evil Tendency and Danger of Speculative Philosophy, Exemplified in Mr. Leslie's Inquiry Into the Nature of Heat, and Mr. Malthus's Essay on Population, and in that Speculative System of Common Law. which is at Present Administered in These Kingdoms: To which is Subjoined, a Prospetus of an Inquiry Into the Origin of Government and Law |
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... Creator established at the very beginning , for the proper construction of language , and as striking examples of the perversion of the na- tural use of it ; but these Observations having unavoidably become far too voluminous to be ...
... Creator established at the very beginning , for the proper construction of language , and as striking examples of the perversion of the na- tural use of it ; but these Observations having unavoidably become far too voluminous to be ...
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... Creator has bestowed upon man , when properly conjoined with those divine revelations which he has made of himself , of his works , and of his will , mankind are ena- bled to acquire all the knowledge which is ne- cessary for their ...
... Creator has bestowed upon man , when properly conjoined with those divine revelations which he has made of himself , of his works , and of his will , mankind are ena- bled to acquire all the knowledge which is ne- cessary for their ...
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... Creator devised , for the construction of nature itself . It will appear also , that the only natural and proper use of that language which the Creator has bestowed upon mankind , is , to con- vey a knowledge of truth from the mind of ...
... Creator devised , for the construction of nature itself . It will appear also , that the only natural and proper use of that language which the Creator has bestowed upon mankind , is , to con- vey a knowledge of truth from the mind of ...
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... no art or science can be useful to man if it is not perfectly con- structed upon that plan which the wisdom of the Creator devised , for the construction of na- ture itself . That science which is properly termed Mathe- matics , is 3.
... no art or science can be useful to man if it is not perfectly con- structed upon that plan which the wisdom of the Creator devised , for the construction of na- ture itself . That science which is properly termed Mathe- matics , is 3.
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... Creator has bestowed upon mankind , to arrange , combine , and unite together , so many of these simple truths or axioms , which have been conveyed to the mind by the organs of sense , as are necessary to form one complete whole ; and ...
... Creator has bestowed upon mankind , to arrange , combine , and unite together , so many of these simple truths or axioms , which have been conveyed to the mind by the organs of sense , as are necessary to form one complete whole ; and ...
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Page 91 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Page 90 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 92 - And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet «of old fruit until the ninth year until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
Page 91 - If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them ; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Page 92 - Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 159 - ... For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it...
Page 92 - And I have led you forty years in the wilderness : your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Page 159 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 106 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 162 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.