Prospect: Or, View of the Moral World, Volume 1E. Palmer, 1803 - Christianity |
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Page 180
... lefs capable of making an examination into the objects perceived . I am not therefore , a mere fensitive and passive , but an active and intelligent being ; and , lay claim to the honour of thinking . I know only that truth depends on ...
... lefs capable of making an examination into the objects perceived . I am not therefore , a mere fensitive and passive , but an active and intelligent being ; and , lay claim to the honour of thinking . I know only that truth depends on ...
Page 203
... lefs injurious to the Deity to entertain no idea of him at all , than to harbour those . which are depreciating and unjust .. After having difcovered thofe of his attributes , by which I am convinced of his existence , I return to my ...
... lefs injurious to the Deity to entertain no idea of him at all , than to harbour those . which are depreciating and unjust .. After having difcovered thofe of his attributes , by which I am convinced of his existence , I return to my ...
Page 204
... lefs vain than affecting ; for my state is not the effect of choice , and could not be due to the merit of a being that did not before exist . Can I behold my felf , nevertheless , thus distinguished , without thinking my felf happy in ...
... lefs vain than affecting ; for my state is not the effect of choice , and could not be due to the merit of a being that did not before exist . Can I behold my felf , nevertheless , thus distinguished , without thinking my felf happy in ...
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... lefs justifiable , as a moral anatomist , in recalling to view the frailties of our fore- fathers , by hanging out their abortions , or deformed monsters , called Laws , in terrorem , that the world may judge of the total infufficiency ...
... lefs justifiable , as a moral anatomist , in recalling to view the frailties of our fore- fathers , by hanging out their abortions , or deformed monsters , called Laws , in terrorem , that the world may judge of the total infufficiency ...
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... paffage to heaven gratis , they become as care- lefs in morals as a fpendthrift would be of money , were he told that his father had engaged to pay off all his scores . It is a doctrine , not only dangerous to morals 245.
... paffage to heaven gratis , they become as care- lefs in morals as a fpendthrift would be of money , were he told that his father had engaged to pay off all his scores . It is a doctrine , not only dangerous to morals 245.
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Page 122 - I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 126 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 149 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 126 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Page 105 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 149 - And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Page 132 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.
Page 143 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Page 97 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 105 - And God said,' This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.