The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... minds of that people . This religion was very absurd , and yet by keeping up an awe of superior powers , and the belief of a Providence , that ordered the course course of events , it produced all the marvellous effects 10 ESSAY THE ...
... minds of that people . This religion was very absurd , and yet by keeping up an awe of superior powers , and the belief of a Providence , that ordered the course course of events , it produced all the marvellous effects 10 ESSAY THE ...
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... mind , as he did most probably , the.great service religion was of to an- cient Rome , he seemed to forget , that , when that religion flourished , and was of so much service to the state , it was under the immediate inspection of the ...
... mind , as he did most probably , the.great service religion was of to an- cient Rome , he seemed to forget , that , when that religion flourished , and was of so much service to the state , it was under the immediate inspection of the ...
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... mind , yet are there none so regard- less of it as these writers , who have rendered church history more inconsistent , and more grossly fabulous than any other history , perhaps than some romances . But still , notwithstanding the ...
... mind , yet are there none so regard- less of it as these writers , who have rendered church history more inconsistent , and more grossly fabulous than any other history , perhaps than some romances . But still , notwithstanding the ...
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... minds of men had been long prepared for every thing that appeared supernatural or mystick , and on the pub- ad paucos homines contrahimus rem , quâ Christus voluit nihil esse communius . lication Con- lication of a religion new and ...
... minds of men had been long prepared for every thing that appeared supernatural or mystick , and on the pub- ad paucos homines contrahimus rem , quâ Christus voluit nihil esse communius . lication Con- lication of a religion new and ...
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... minds of men , as the carnality of the others . This was done , the great means of doing it of fered themselves . Christianity was taught first , and propagated afterward by word of mouth . So the apostles and disciples received it ...
... minds of men , as the carnality of the others . This was done , the great means of doing it of fered themselves . Christianity was taught first , and propagated afterward by word of mouth . So the apostles and disciples received it ...
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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...