The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... serve some particular turn : and though all men are regardless of truth in such a disposition of mind , yet are there none so regard- less of it as these writers , who have rendered church history more inconsistent , and more grossly ...
... serve some particular turn : and though all men are regardless of truth in such a disposition of mind , yet are there none so regard- less of it as these writers , who have rendered church history more inconsistent , and more grossly ...
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... served to enforce their usur → pations . Their preeminence and their dominion over conscience had been so far from promoting charity , and maintaining unity , that they had pro- moted and maintained a perpetual strife and con tention ...
... served to enforce their usur → pations . Their preeminence and their dominion over conscience had been so far from promoting charity , and maintaining unity , that they had pro- moted and maintained a perpetual strife and con tention ...
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... serves for the remission of sins , you cannot discover , by experiment , whether it serves as effectually to the cure of diseases . But in the primitive church , the remedy was employed for both , and the sick took it betimes . It was a ...
... serves for the remission of sins , you cannot discover , by experiment , whether it serves as effectually to the cure of diseases . But in the primitive church , the remedy was employed for both , and the sick took it betimes . It was a ...
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... serve still more to show our ignorance than our knowledge . " Sensible of this , the heathen divines in their sober moods represented the Supreme Being as hidden from us in the depths of darkness , or in excess of light ; a first ...
... serve still more to show our ignorance than our knowledge . " Sensible of this , the heathen divines in their sober moods represented the Supreme Being as hidden from us in the depths of darkness , or in excess of light ; a first ...
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... serve the purpose of leading men to the discovery of it , and therefore to serve any purpose at all . But the divines I have men- tioned would do well to consider , that they have a much less right to conclude , that the au- thors of ...
... serve the purpose of leading men to the discovery of it , and therefore to serve any purpose at all . But the divines I have men- tioned would do well to consider , that they have a much less right to conclude , that the au- thors of ...
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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...