The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... employing the civil power in spiritual quarrels , and the spiritual power in civil , she claimed a sovereign and uni- versal authority , seized the two swords into her hands , and sharpened the edge of both . SECT . XXIII . THE good ...
... employing the civil power in spiritual quarrels , and the spiritual power in civil , she claimed a sovereign and uni- versal authority , seized the two swords into her hands , and sharpened the edge of both . SECT . XXIII . THE good ...
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... employed by Baronius and others , to show that christian emperors might as- sume the title , and wear the robe , without super- stition or idolatry ; for these authors are pleased to suppose that they did no more . But they con- tradict ...
... employed by Baronius and others , to show that christian emperors might as- sume the title , and wear the robe , without super- stition or idolatry ; for these authors are pleased to suppose that they did no more . But they con- tradict ...
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... employed for both , and the sick took it betimes . It was a secret , might the apo- logists of heresy say , both of natural and theur- * Chap . v . gick magick , and they might pretend that several such gick AUTHORITY IN MATTERS OF ...
... employed for both , and the sick took it betimes . It was a secret , might the apo- logists of heresy say , both of natural and theur- * Chap . v . gick magick , and they might pretend that several such gick AUTHORITY IN MATTERS OF ...
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... employed to the best purposes . But although the conceptions , which the Jews entertained of the Supreme Being , were thus far very orthodox in the eye of reason , and although the psalmists and the prophets strained their imaginations ...
... employed to the best purposes . But although the conceptions , which the Jews entertained of the Supreme Being , were thus far very orthodox in the eye of reason , and although the psalmists and the prophets strained their imaginations ...
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... employ words , that impose by their sound and have no determinate ideas affixed to them , will ever attempt this expla- nation . All that the wit of man can do is to speak cautiously and reverently of it , according to to those general ...
... employ words , that impose by their sound and have no determinate ideas affixed to them , will ever attempt this expla- nation . All that the wit of man can do is to speak cautiously and reverently of it , according to to those general ...
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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...