The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added Two Brief Dissertations : I. On Personal Identity, II. On the Nature of Virtue |
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... positive rites , by way of equiva- lent for obedience to moral precepts ; yet , without making any comparison between them , the nature of the thing abundantly shows all notions of that kind to be utterly subversive of true religion ...
... positive rites , by way of equiva- lent for obedience to moral precepts ; yet , without making any comparison between them , the nature of the thing abundantly shows all notions of that kind to be utterly subversive of true religion ...
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... capaci- ties before death , is a presumption that we shall retain them through and after death ; indeed a probability of it abundantly sufficient to act upon , unless there be some positive reason to think that death 16 OF A FUTURE LIFE .
... capaci- ties before death , is a presumption that we shall retain them through and after death ; indeed a probability of it abundantly sufficient to act upon , unless there be some positive reason to think that death 16 OF A FUTURE LIFE .
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... positive reason to think that death is the destruction of those living powers : because there is in every case a probability , that all things will continue as we experience they are , in all respects , except those in which we have ...
... positive reason to think that death is the destruction of those living powers : because there is in every case a probability , that all things will continue as we experience they are , in all respects , except those in which we have ...
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... , sometimes positively vicious ; by general bad example ; by the dishonest artifices which are got into business of all kinds ; and , in very many parts of the world , by religion's being corrupted into 84 OF A STATE OF TRIAL .
... , sometimes positively vicious ; by general bad example ; by the dishonest artifices which are got into business of all kinds ; and , in very many parts of the world , by religion's being corrupted into 84 OF A STATE OF TRIAL .
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... positive ground , and there is none from reason or analogy , to think death will destroy us . Were a persuasion of this kind ever so well grounded , there would , surely , be little reason to take pleasure in it . But indeed it can have ...
... positive ground , and there is none from reason or analogy , to think death will destroy us . Were a persuasion of this kind ever so well grounded , there would , surely , be little reason to take pleasure in it . But indeed it can have ...
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Page 225 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 1 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 228 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying ; Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Page 206 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 286 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Page 47 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 226 - For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Page 226 - Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Page 172 - Moral precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we see: positive precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we do not see.* Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. Positive duties do not arise out of the nature of the case, but from external command ; nor would they be duties at all, were it not for such command, received from him whose creatures and subjects we are.
Page 289 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.