| William Warburton - Bible - 1766 - 426 pages
...had fo loft its hold of thofe, whom, in the time of Polybius, it fo entirely pofTefled, that Casfar could dare, in full Senate, with a degree of licence...Antiquity, to declare, that the doctrine of a future Jlate of rewards andpuni/hments was all a groundlefs notion. This was a dreadful prognoftic of their... | |
| William Warburton - Religion - 1788 - 492 pages
...difcourfe, he meets with ancient teftiirtonies for the neceffity of RELIGION to Society, he may be fure, that the doctrine of a FUTURE STATE of rewards and punishments, was the chief idea included in that term. And on this account it is, that frequently, where the Ancients... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...philosophers, as he confesses, used, for the public good, to say one thing taken they thought another. They saw that the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments was firmly believed by the people, and of infinite service to society. But their speculative opinions led... | |
| Adam Empie - Universalism - 1825 - 156 pages
...clearly set forth than it is in this seventy-third psalm ? Can any thing further be necessary to prove that the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments was received as a revealed and well established truth in the time of David, 1000 years before the time... | |
| William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 720 pages
...ESPECIALLY THE MOST WISE AND LEARNED NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY, HAVE CONCURRED IN BELIEVING, AND TEACHING, THAT THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE STATE OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS WAS NECESSARY TO THE WELL-BEING OF SOCIETY. In doing this, I have presumed to enter the very penetralia... | |
| William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 744 pages
...was a designed omission ; and of a thing well known by him to be of high importance to society. I. That the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments was studiously omitted, may appear from several circumstances in i IK- book of Genesis. For the history... | |
| William Warburton - Bible - 1846 - 540 pages
...of that philosophy by the avowed principles of a better, they content themselves with only saying, that " the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments was delivered down to them from their ancestors."^ From this cold manner of evading the argument, by retiring... | |
| George Smith - History, Ancient - 1853 - 416 pages
...philosophical sect, or by appealing to the judgment of their country. Their only resource was the replication, that " the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments was delivered to them from their ancestors." This most illogical reply, as Bishop Warburton observes, is... | |
| George Smith - Civilization, Ancient - 1854 - 698 pages
...philosophical sect, or by appealing to the judgment of their country. Their only resource was the replication, that " the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments was delivered to them from their ancestors." This most illogical reply, as Bishop Warburton observes, is... | |
| George Smith - History, Ancient - 1855 - 676 pages
...philosophical sect, or by appealing to the judgment of their country. Their only resource was the replication, that " the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments was delivered to them from itheir ancestors." This most illogical reply, as Bishop Warburton observes,... | |
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