The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... assumed the power of making wills , they took possession by fraud , or violence , of the estates of others ; and not content to break the laws in such instances as these , which may be called private , they broke them in the most ...
... assumed the power of making wills , they took possession by fraud , or violence , of the estates of others ; and not content to break the laws in such instances as these , which may be called private , they broke them in the most ...
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... assuming that office in the christian church . I will not say , that the emperors might have performed pontifical functions ; though I see no absurdity in the pro- position , nor am able to conceive why they should . not have exacted to ...
... assuming that office in the christian church . I will not say , that the emperors might have performed pontifical functions ; though I see no absurdity in the pro- position , nor am able to conceive why they should . not have exacted to ...
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... assumed a share of the other , incroached on the civil magistrates , and opposed and insulted them , whereof there were several instances at Rome and Alexandria particu- larly . larly * . But in the main , they expressed 34 ESSAY THE ...
... assumed a share of the other , incroached on the civil magistrates , and opposed and insulted them , whereof there were several instances at Rome and Alexandria particu- larly . larly * . But in the main , they expressed 34 ESSAY THE ...
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... assuming no other right than that which every member had , man and woman indiscriminately , the right of prophesying or preaching , as often as they pleased to suppose that the spirit moved them to it . The apostles opposed the false ...
... assuming no other right than that which every member had , man and woman indiscriminately , the right of prophesying or preaching , as often as they pleased to suppose that the spirit moved them to it . The apostles opposed the false ...
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... assumed the title of orthodox . If the for- mer assumed the pompous title of Gnostics , and despised the first preachers of christianity as ig- norant and illiterate men , the latter grew Gnos- tics soon , without assuming the title ...
... assumed the title of orthodox . If the for- mer assumed the pompous title of Gnostics , and despised the first preachers of christianity as ig- norant and illiterate men , the latter grew Gnos- tics soon , without assuming the title ...
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Page 312 - In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 159 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 163 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Page 256 - Father, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 497 - And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
Page 510 - The gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity.
Page 331 - ... another, and the same consequent fitness or unfitness of the application of different things or different relations one to another, with regard to which, the will of God always and necessarily does determine itself, to choose to act only what is agreeable to justice, equity, goodness and truth...
Page 64 - ... the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments...
Page 310 - Sed justifias primum munus est, ut ne cui quis noceat, nisi lacessitus injuria; deinde, ut communibus utatur pro communibus, privatis ut suis.
Page 401 - ... laws, but a general, and in some sort an habitual, knowledge of the manner in which God is pleased to exercise his supreme power in this system, beyond which we have no concern. We do not see the divine painter, if I may employ so low a comparison on so high a subject; but we grow...