The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added Two Brief Dissertations : I. On Personal Identity, II. On the Nature of Virtue |
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... arises from the direct contrary of this love for the obscure . He labours for simplicity ; he embarrasses by his ea- gerness for explanation ; he tries so many ways of conducting to his meaning , that the reader is be- wildered among ...
... arises from the direct contrary of this love for the obscure . He labours for simplicity ; he embarrasses by his ea- gerness for explanation ; he tries so many ways of conducting to his meaning , that the reader is be- wildered among ...
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... arises the belief , that a child , if it lives twenty years , will grow up to the stature and strength of a man ; that food will contribute to the preservation of its life , and the want of it for such a number of days , be its certain ...
... arises the belief , that a child , if it lives twenty years , will grow up to the stature and strength of a man ; that food will contribute to the preservation of its life , and the want of it for such a number of days , be its certain ...
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... arise a general confused suspicion , that in the great shock and alteration which we shall undergo by death , we , i . e . our living powers , might be wholly destroyed ; yet even prior to those proofs , there is really no particular ...
... arise a general confused suspicion , that in the great shock and alteration which we shall undergo by death , we , i . e . our living powers , might be wholly destroyed ; yet even prior to those proofs , there is really no particular ...
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... arises from a sense of mere loss or harm . What is more common , than to hear a man lamenting an accident or event ... arise from a sense of his being blame - worthy ; otherwise there would , in many cases , be no ground of disturbance ...
... arises from a sense of mere loss or harm . What is more common , than to hear a man lamenting an accident or event ... arise from a sense of his being blame - worthy ; otherwise there would , in many cases , be no ground of disturbance ...
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... arise consi- derable advantage and inconvenience . And though the generality of the world have little regard to the morality of their own actions , and may be supposed to have less to that of others , when they themselves are not ...
... arise consi- derable advantage and inconvenience . And though the generality of the world have little regard to the morality of their own actions , and may be supposed to have less to that of others , when they themselves are not ...
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Page 225 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 1 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 228 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying ; Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Page 206 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 286 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Page 47 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 226 - For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Page 226 - Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Page 172 - Moral precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we see: positive precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we do not see.* Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. Positive duties do not arise out of the nature of the case, but from external command ; nor would they be duties at all, were it not for such command, received from him whose creatures and subjects we are.
Page 289 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.