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... Hands , would it not be our Wisdom and our Interest to refign it back into God's Hands again , who , as we must needs acknowledge , can carve a thoufand times better for us , than we for our felves times 26 SERMON I.
... Hands , would it not be our Wisdom and our Interest to refign it back into God's Hands again , who , as we must needs acknowledge , can carve a thoufand times better for us , than we for our felves times 26 SERMON I.
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... whether it be not a thousand tines more for your Interest that Religion fhould be no Imposture , than that you should enjoy your Lufts , and whether all all those Comforts that Religion ad- ministers in this Life 38 SERMON I.
... whether it be not a thousand tines more for your Interest that Religion fhould be no Imposture , than that you should enjoy your Lufts , and whether all all those Comforts that Religion ad- ministers in this Life 38 SERMON I.
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... Interests and Defigns , it taught its Followers only to endure , but not to inflict Perfecutions : For this was their Language in the purer Ages , Non eft Religionis , cogere Religionem , que fuf- cipi debet fponte , non Vi , as Tertull ...
... Interests and Defigns , it taught its Followers only to endure , but not to inflict Perfecutions : For this was their Language in the purer Ages , Non eft Religionis , cogere Religionem , que fuf- cipi debet fponte , non Vi , as Tertull ...
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... Interest of it , and to joyn in all Acts of it fo far as they tend thereunto ; and diffent from e- very thing which tends to the appa- rent Ruin of that Society . Now the main end of Christian Society , being the Honour of God , and the ...
... Interest of it , and to joyn in all Acts of it fo far as they tend thereunto ; and diffent from e- very thing which tends to the appa- rent Ruin of that Society . Now the main end of Christian Society , being the Honour of God , and the ...
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... Interest , Paffion , or Mistake , you should exterminate the Truth with it ; for you being fo fallible , and apt to err , it is impoffible but fome- times you must mifs the Mark , mi- ftake the Wheat for Tares , and hit the Truth ...
... Interest , Paffion , or Mistake , you should exterminate the Truth with it ; for you being fo fallible , and apt to err , it is impoffible but fome- times you must mifs the Mark , mi- ftake the Wheat for Tares , and hit the Truth ...
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