The Cause and Cure of Infidelity: Including a Notice of the Author's Unbelief and the Means of His Rescue |
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... understand how this first cause of unbelief , ( man's sinfulness , ) must tend toward the production of the second cause , his lack of information . It retards his labours in search . ing after truth ; it aids in continuing his want of ...
... understand how this first cause of unbelief , ( man's sinfulness , ) must tend toward the production of the second cause , his lack of information . It retards his labours in search . ing after truth ; it aids in continuing his want of ...
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... understand slowly , or for- get very soon . We have been naming some of the kind which secure their attention and their recollec- tion . We will now notice a few out of the mass of items , such as they either do not learn , or do not ...
... understand slowly , or for- get very soon . We have been naming some of the kind which secure their attention and their recollec- tion . We will now notice a few out of the mass of items , such as they either do not learn , or do not ...
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... unlettered will be able to understand dates in this case ; and will be satisfied , after nine hundred years of discussion , that the book was in existence . For the sake of those who may fear Christian partiality , when OF INFIDELITY . 31.
... unlettered will be able to understand dates in this case ; and will be satisfied , after nine hundred years of discussion , that the book was in existence . For the sake of those who may fear Christian partiality , when OF INFIDELITY . 31.
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... understand the subject . Many things in religion seem to contradict my plainest reason . " Mark this case . The preceptive doctrines of Christi- anity are plain enough for a child to understand , and lovely enough to captivate all that ...
... understand the subject . Many things in religion seem to contradict my plainest reason . " Mark this case . The preceptive doctrines of Christi- anity are plain enough for a child to understand , and lovely enough to captivate all that ...
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... understand ; that he has read of alkalis , caloric , affinities , & c . until all appears to him a mass of confusion , and a jargon of nonsense . That he has thought on these things as he rode on his horse , as he lay on his bed , and ...
... understand ; that he has read of alkalis , caloric , affinities , & c . until all appears to him a mass of confusion , and a jargon of nonsense . That he has thought on these things as he rode on his horse , as he lay on his bed , and ...
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Page 38 - It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 305 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 282 - If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Page 317 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it ; and it had ten horns.
Page 299 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united ! for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 283 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.
Page 126 - And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
Page 52 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains...
Page 285 - Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Page 139 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.