The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Volume 4Carey and Hart, 1841 - Great Britain |
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... manner of being , and though to attempt it is unpardonable presumption , yet we may , and we must assert , that he is not a system of matter ; because there arise , from the contrary supposition , a multitude of absurdities , that ...
... manner of being , and though to attempt it is unpardonable presumption , yet we may , and we must assert , that he is not a system of matter ; because there arise , from the contrary supposition , a multitude of absurdities , that ...
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... manner was the fundamental article of Christianity imposed at first , without a plain and harmonical concurrence of the Scriptures , or of tradition ; though such a concurrence , at least , was necessary to make it a revealed doctrine ...
... manner was the fundamental article of Christianity imposed at first , without a plain and harmonical concurrence of the Scriptures , or of tradition ; though such a concurrence , at least , was necessary to make it a revealed doctrine ...
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... manner . Constantine saw , and apprehended the consequences . To prevent them , he resolved to call together a general council , and to preside in it ; for so in effect he did . He flattered himself , that an ecclesiastical dispute ...
... manner . Constantine saw , and apprehended the consequences . To prevent them , he resolved to call together a general council , and to preside in it ; for so in effect he did . He flattered himself , that an ecclesiastical dispute ...
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... manner . The Messiah showed himself to the world in the lowest form of life , and avoided all appearances of affecting any higher rank , even that of the Messiah , which was distinguished from that of king ; though the Jews , misled by ...
... manner . The Messiah showed himself to the world in the lowest form of life , and avoided all appearances of affecting any higher rank , even that of the Messiah , which was distinguished from that of king ; though the Jews , misled by ...
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... manner , one part of the Saviour's intentions was answered . His innocence was averred . But there was another part . He was not only to be innocent , he was to die innocent : and of this he made the Jews the instruments by a sequel of ...
... manner , one part of the Saviour's intentions was answered . His innocence was averred . But there was another part . He was not only to be innocent , he was to die innocent : and of this he made the Jews the instruments by a sequel of ...
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Page 26 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and, if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life...
Page 129 - In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 47 - 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 312 - It was foretold, that to him should the gathering of the people be ; and that God would give him the Heathen for his inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession, which was punctually fulfilled by the wonderful success of the gospel, and its universal propagation throughout the world.
Page 49 - 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 195 - And if we may not suppose men ever to have been in the state of Nature, because we hear not much of them in such a state, we may as well suppose the armies of Salmanasser or Xerxes were never children, because we hear little of them till they were men and embodied in armies.
Page 99 - That also of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 180 - The laws of nature are, truly, what lord Bacon styles his aphorisms, laws of laws. Civil laws are always imperfect, and often false deductions from them, or applications of them ; nay, they stand, in many instances, in direct opposition to them.
Page 230 - 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 405 - As in matters of sense, the reason why a thing is visible is not because it is seen, but it is therefore seen because it is visible : so in matters of natural reason and morality, that which is holy and good...