An Apology for the Disbelief of Revealed Religion: Consisting of Two Tracts Reprinted; the Latter with Some Additions1801 - Revelation - 198 pages |
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... true account , what was affirmed of Judas Iscariot might , with as much reafon , be predicated of all men ( the little flock of true chriftians ex- cepted ) , viz . It were good for them not to have been , or not to be , born . Indeed I ...
... true account , what was affirmed of Judas Iscariot might , with as much reafon , be predicated of all men ( the little flock of true chriftians ex- cepted ) , viz . It were good for them not to have been , or not to be , born . Indeed I ...
Page 13
... neceffity . And ( as what we wish to be true , we are more or less prepared to ad- mit upon infufficient evidence ) these per- fons , fons , seeing the very happy and defirable confequences refulting Sober and Serious Reafons , & c . 13.
... neceffity . And ( as what we wish to be true , we are more or less prepared to ad- mit upon infufficient evidence ) these per- fons , fons , seeing the very happy and defirable confequences refulting Sober and Serious Reafons , & c . 13.
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... true fcriptu- ral account ; but I am , at least , equally perfuaded , for I am well convinced , that it is in itself falfe . This , dear Sir , is my grand objection to christianity , and the principal ground of my scepticifm : I have ...
... true fcriptu- ral account ; but I am , at least , equally perfuaded , for I am well convinced , that it is in itself falfe . This , dear Sir , is my grand objection to christianity , and the principal ground of my scepticifm : I have ...
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... true ( and if the apostles were , as they are fuppofed to have been , competent to judge of that matter ) , their conduct is altogether unaccountable ; and the rapid fuccefs of chriftianity is equally fo . This argument has been ...
... true ( and if the apostles were , as they are fuppofed to have been , competent to judge of that matter ) , their conduct is altogether unaccountable ; and the rapid fuccefs of chriftianity is equally fo . This argument has been ...
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... true which int itfelf is impoffible . Now I am convinced it is impoffible for the benevolent Deity to create beings in order to make them mi- ferable but the chriftian fcriptures affirm ( as we have feen ) that everlasting misery is the ...
... true which int itfelf is impoffible . Now I am convinced it is impoffible for the benevolent Deity to create beings in order to make them mi- ferable but the chriftian fcriptures affirm ( as we have feen ) that everlasting misery is the ...
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Page 115 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 10 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out : It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire : 48 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 105 - But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny ? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this, last, even as unto thee.
Page 122 - In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an Angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Page 10 - And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, -than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 34 - As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come 'into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Page 80 - Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth ? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Page 82 - And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
Page 47 - Therefore I say unto you ; Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Page 34 - Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD ; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.