Profession is not Principle; or, the Name of Christian is not Christianity. By the author of 'The Decision' i.e. Grace KennedyWilliam Oliphant, 1823 - 286 pages |
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... subject of religion , I have never met with one who even pre- tended to know the Bible thoroughly , but those who were guided by it . On the contrary , it is as general to despise the knowledge , as the belief of it . I know men ...
... subject of religion , I have never met with one who even pre- tended to know the Bible thoroughly , but those who were guided by it . On the contrary , it is as general to despise the knowledge , as the belief of it . I know men ...
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... subject of religion . Poor Arthur's reflection on himself spoke volumes to me . All my other children had been equally neglected . They had all , you know , Conway , been , educated in the observance of the forms of reli- gion ; but ...
... subject of religion . Poor Arthur's reflection on himself spoke volumes to me . All my other children had been equally neglected . They had all , you know , Conway , been , educated in the observance of the forms of reli- gion ; but ...
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... subject . How . But I , my dear Conway , have been thinking much upon it ; and have discovered , from my own experience , that one great impediment to our ever acquiring the knowledge of true scrip- tural religion , arises from an ...
... subject . How . But I , my dear Conway , have been thinking much upon it ; and have discovered , from my own experience , that one great impediment to our ever acquiring the knowledge of true scrip- tural religion , arises from an ...
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... subject of religion , by a young friend who lived in his neighbourhood in the country . You know his health pre- vented his residing in London , and for three years he had spent his time chiefly with my sister in Cornwall . sister in ...
... subject of religion , by a young friend who lived in his neighbourhood in the country . You know his health pre- vented his residing in London , and for three years he had spent his time chiefly with my sister in Cornwall . sister in ...
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... subject of religion , it is , forgive me , dear Conway , mere folly . Con . Why so ? How . Because there is not a doctrine , or precept of Christianity , which men have not involved in obscurity by their explanations and glosses . Those ...
... subject of religion , it is , forgive me , dear Conway , mere folly . Con . Why so ? How . Because there is not a doctrine , or precept of Christianity , which men have not involved in obscurity by their explanations and glosses . Those ...
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