The Posthumous Works of Jeremiah Seed, M.A. Late Rector of Enham in Hampshire. And Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford: Consisting of Sermons, Letters, Essays, &c. in Two Volumes. Published from the Author's Original Manuscrips [sic].M. Seed, and sold, 1750 - Sermons, English |
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Page 15
... greatest Resort , ( as any one that reads the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles may find ) must have laid open to public Examination ; and , if false , to public Detection . The chief Men among them , as their Reputation , Religion and ...
... greatest Resort , ( as any one that reads the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles may find ) must have laid open to public Examination ; and , if false , to public Detection . The chief Men among them , as their Reputation , Religion and ...
Page 41
... greatest Ab- furdity of all , that they who do not know any Thing in the Courfe of Nature , no not so much as the Falling of a Stone , but what baffles , confounds , and furpaffes all their reafoning Powers , fhould refufe to be- lieve ...
... greatest Ab- furdity of all , that they who do not know any Thing in the Courfe of Nature , no not so much as the Falling of a Stone , but what baffles , confounds , and furpaffes all their reafoning Powers , fhould refufe to be- lieve ...
Page 54
... infinitely perfect Being ; the greatest Abfurdity is to believe , there is an infinitely perfect and wife Being , who does not know , what to- morrow , morrow , nay what the next Hour may bring forth 54 Improbabilities not fufficient.
... infinitely perfect Being ; the greatest Abfurdity is to believe , there is an infinitely perfect and wife Being , who does not know , what to- morrow , morrow , nay what the next Hour may bring forth 54 Improbabilities not fufficient.
Page 142
... greatest Wound it ever felt : a total Uncertainty would follow as to every Doctrine , but those for which we had Mathematical or Meta- phyfical Certainty . What can we believe as certain , would People fay , if God has fuf- fered an ...
... greatest Wound it ever felt : a total Uncertainty would follow as to every Doctrine , but those for which we had Mathematical or Meta- phyfical Certainty . What can we believe as certain , would People fay , if God has fuf- fered an ...
Page 165
... greatest Difficulty remains : How is it confiftent with God's Goodness , or reconcileable to his Attributes , to fuffer thofe Beings , to poffefs the Bodies of Men , which was the Cafe of the Dæmoniacs , as well as to feduce their Minds ...
... greatest Difficulty remains : How is it confiftent with God's Goodness , or reconcileable to his Attributes , to fuffer thofe Beings , to poffefs the Bodies of Men , which was the Cafe of the Dæmoniacs , as well as to feduce their Minds ...
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Page 159 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Page 203 - He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; And he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks ; And he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Page 292 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept.
Page 205 - I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away ; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Page 119 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 302 - My only 71 question at present is, la thine heart right as my heart is with thy heart ? If it be, give me thine hand.
Page 1 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the .power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Page 162 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 119 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Page 202 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feafts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither confider the operation of his hands.