The Works of the Right Reverend John England: Part 2., cont'd. ; Part 3. History: generalArthur H. Clarke, 1908 - Theology |
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... learned than we are , and who affect to pity us for the overshadowing of our intellect ; those good gentlemen who bellow against our religion in the cities , and the towns , and the villages , and the courts , and the woods of this ...
... learned than we are , and who affect to pity us for the overshadowing of our intellect ; those good gentlemen who bellow against our religion in the cities , and the towns , and the villages , and the courts , and the woods of this ...
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... learned from revelation ; nor could we , nor could our earliest predecessors know with certainty that there was such a state , nor any of its circumstances , by the light of our natural reason : hence , every thing which was so known ...
... learned from revelation ; nor could we , nor could our earliest predecessors know with certainty that there was such a state , nor any of its circumstances , by the light of our natural reason : hence , every thing which was so known ...
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... learned from the Mosaic code , or from the Hebrew people ; thus the circumstance of its being found in those other nations , destroys the foundation sought to be laid , and we are driven to that inevitable conclusion , that it was one ...
... learned from the Mosaic code , or from the Hebrew people ; thus the circumstance of its being found in those other nations , destroys the foundation sought to be laid , and we are driven to that inevitable conclusion , that it was one ...
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... learned from the testimony of God , given by ages and by nations , exhibiting his early revelations , that it frequently is deferred , and that the soul undergoes punishment , which may be al- leviated by prayers and suffrages of the ...
... learned from the testimony of God , given by ages and by nations , exhibiting his early revelations , that it frequently is deferred , and that the soul undergoes punishment , which may be al- leviated by prayers and suffrages of the ...
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... learned and prom- inent individuals amongst those who , as a body , have rejected the doc- trine , testify to its antiquity and truth ; and that it is received and ac- knowledged to be true in some of the first and most esteemed confes ...
... learned and prom- inent individuals amongst those who , as a body , have rejected the doc- trine , testify to its antiquity and truth ; and that it is received and ac- knowledged to be true in some of the first and most esteemed confes ...
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Page 212 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 301 - And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?
Page 472 - They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Page 193 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 293 - For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised : he is to be feared above all gods. 5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Page 160 - Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose, Whether you had not sometime in your life Err'd in this point which now you censure him, And pull'd the law upon you. Ang. 'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. I not deny The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
Page 301 - And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground...
Page 301 - In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of His glory.
Page 334 - Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God: so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
Page 333 - ... the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter, (for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles,) and when James Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.