The Origin and Development of Religious Belief, Part 2D. Appleton, 1870 - Christianity |
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... Unless Theology can be based on facts anterior to text or society , to facts in our own nature , ever new , but also ever old , it can never be placed in an unassailable position . For if Christianity be true , it must be true.
... Unless Theology can be based on facts anterior to text or society , to facts in our own nature , ever new , but also ever old , it can never be placed in an unassailable position . For if Christianity be true , it must be true.
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... never itself be made available or useful to man unless man were able to test its claims and recognise its adaptability to complete and satisfy the highest aspirations and the deepest longings of our nature . We start from a sense of ...
... never itself be made available or useful to man unless man were able to test its claims and recognise its adaptability to complete and satisfy the highest aspirations and the deepest longings of our nature . We start from a sense of ...
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... never have lasted a day . They differ , unquestionably , according to the stage of thought - develop- ment of the several peoples and nations which embraced them ; but their differences ought , if man is progressive , to be capable of ...
... never have lasted a day . They differ , unquestionably , according to the stage of thought - develop- ment of the several peoples and nations which embraced them ; but their differences ought , if man is progressive , to be capable of ...
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... never abruptly transitional ; so that Linnĉus might well observe , " She never takes a leap . " The mineral kingdom shades into that of vegetation , the plant graduates into the animal , and the instinct of the animal lightens slowly ...
... never abruptly transitional ; so that Linnĉus might well observe , " She never takes a leap . " The mineral kingdom shades into that of vegetation , the plant graduates into the animal , and the instinct of the animal lightens slowly ...
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... never attainable . That pleasure does attend the acquisition of knowledge does not admit of doubt . Take mathematical truths as an instance , the clearest of all to man's perception . Is it not a fact that as soon as the mind has ...
... never attainable . That pleasure does attend the acquisition of knowledge does not admit of doubt . Take mathematical truths as an instance , the clearest of all to man's perception . Is it not a fact that as soon as the mind has ...
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Page 320 - HOLY Scripture containeth 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 the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 193 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body : so also is Christ. — For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free ; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Page 293 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No.- Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 320 - The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from scripture ; unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit or traditions of men.
Page 129 - But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Page 257 - From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 343 - For thou hast said in thine heart. I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 193 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 240 - Whence heavy persecution shall arise On all, who in the worship persevere Of spirit and truth; the rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion satisfied...
Page 129 - The head of every man is Christ, — and the head of Christ is...