Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3James Miller, 1826 - Unitarianism |
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... important event in literary history . The consider- ation , that we of this age are the first readers of this treatise , naturally heightens our interest in it ; for we seem in this way to be brought nearer to the author , and to ...
... important event in literary history . The consider- ation , that we of this age are the first readers of this treatise , naturally heightens our interest in it ; for we seem in this way to be brought nearer to the author , and to ...
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... important ones ; such as energy and richness , and in these Mil- ton is not surpassed . The best style is not that which puts the reader most easily and in the shortest time in possession of a writer's naked thoughts ; but that which is ...
... important ones ; such as energy and richness , and in these Mil- ton is not surpassed . The best style is not that which puts the reader most easily and in the shortest time in possession of a writer's naked thoughts ; but that which is ...
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... important theological treatises published during his life . They were his earliest prose compositions , and thrown off with much haste , and on these accounts are more chargeable with defects of style than any other of his writings ...
... important theological treatises published during his life . They were his earliest prose compositions , and thrown off with much haste , and on these accounts are more chargeable with defects of style than any other of his writings ...
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... importance of those opinions , or rather in proportion to the authority of Scripture , on the abun- dant testimony of which they rest . Without this liberty there is neither religion nor gospel - force alone prevails , by which it is ...
... importance of those opinions , or rather in proportion to the authority of Scripture , on the abun- dant testimony of which they rest . Without this liberty there is neither religion nor gospel - force alone prevails , by which it is ...
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... importance , that this hostility is not the less decided , because no express pro- hibition of polygamy is found in the New Testament ; for Chris- tianity is not a system of precise legislation , marking out with literal exactness every ...
... importance , that this hostility is not the less decided , because no express pro- hibition of polygamy is found in the New Testament ; for Chris- tianity is not a system of precise legislation , marking out with literal exactness every ...
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Page 188 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 109 - Ye are the children of the prophets, and , of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Page 36 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 274 - ... how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Page 388 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways and live?
Page 47 - ... to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness...
Page 373 - Scriptures contain all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 64 - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes...
Page 389 - Take heed to yourselves : if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him ; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent ; thou shalt forgive him.
Page 187 - If every action, which is good or evil in man at ripe years, were to be under pittance and...