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... faith of every true Christian to see how the Sun of Righteous- ness slowly emerges from its long and disastrous eclipse , with unshorn rays , and the promise of shedding in due time upon the darkened nations the brightness of the ...
... faith of every true Christian to see how the Sun of Righteous- ness slowly emerges from its long and disastrous eclipse , with unshorn rays , and the promise of shedding in due time upon the darkened nations the brightness of the ...
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... faith to no man's sleeve , be it the papal scarlet , or the bish- op's lawn , but is to exercise the right of private judgment in religion , uninfluenced by the fear or the favor of man , seeking light from all quarters , wherever it ...
... faith to no man's sleeve , be it the papal scarlet , or the bish- op's lawn , but is to exercise the right of private judgment in religion , uninfluenced by the fear or the favor of man , seeking light from all quarters , wherever it ...
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... the truest affection , I am , Dear Friend , Your Brother , In the faith and hope of the gospel , BIRMINGHAM , Nov. 1782 . J. PRIESTLEY . DR PRIESTLEY'S PREFACE . AFTER examining the foundation of our viii DEDICATION .
... the truest affection , I am , Dear Friend , Your Brother , In the faith and hope of the gospel , BIRMINGHAM , Nov. 1782 . J. PRIESTLEY . DR PRIESTLEY'S PREFACE . AFTER examining the foundation of our viii DEDICATION .
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Joseph Priestley. DR PRIESTLEY'S PREFACE . AFTER examining the foundation of our Christian faith , and having seen how much valuable information we receive from it , in my Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion , it is with a kind ...
Joseph Priestley. DR PRIESTLEY'S PREFACE . AFTER examining the foundation of our Christian faith , and having seen how much valuable information we receive from it , in my Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion , it is with a kind ...
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... faith , is no wonder , considering his prejudice against the Unitarians of his own time . He speaks of the Ebionites , as persons whom a malignant demon had brought into his power , and though he speaks of them as holding that Jesus was ...
... faith , is no wonder , considering his prejudice against the Unitarians of his own time . He speaks of the Ebionites , as persons whom a malignant demon had brought into his power , and though he speaks of them as holding that Jesus was ...
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Page 20 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God : and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come ; and even now already is it in the world.
Page 301 - For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man: God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world...
Page 301 - At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies : and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting : and they that have done evil into everlasting fire. This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Page 110 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Page 107 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Page 60 - To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 92 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 104 - ... though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
Page 101 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 116 - And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin.