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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... Butler , was the son of a dissen- ter ; like him , was intended for the dissenting pulpit ; was sent to the academy at Tewksbury , and , as the time of commencing his office approached , weighed the xxii MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR .
... Butler , was the son of a dissen- ter ; like him , was intended for the dissenting pulpit ; was sent to the academy at Tewksbury , and , as the time of commencing his office approached , weighed the xxii MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR .
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... intended to place on one of them the striking passage from Origen , quoted by Butler in his Introduction : He who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from Him who is the Author of Nature , may well expect to find the same sort of ...
... intended to place on one of them the striking passage from Origen , quoted by Butler in his Introduction : He who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from Him who is the Author of Nature , may well expect to find the same sort of ...
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... intended for moral Discipline and Improvement . CHAPTER VI . - Page 117 . Of the Opinion of Necessity , considered as influencing Practice . CHAPTER VII . - Page 136 . Of the Government of God , considered as a Scheme or Constitution ...
... intended for moral Discipline and Improvement . CHAPTER VI . - Page 117 . Of the Opinion of Necessity , considered as influencing Practice . CHAPTER VII . - Page 136 . Of the Government of God , considered as a Scheme or Constitution ...
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... intended , by any thing here said , to affirm , that the whole apparatus of vision , or of perception by any other of our senses , can be traced through all its steps , quite up to the living power of seeing , or perceiving but that so ...
... intended , by any thing here said , to affirm , that the whole apparatus of vision , or of perception by any other of our senses , can be traced through all its steps , quite up to the living power of seeing , or perceiving but that so ...
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... intended by it is really no difficulty at all , either in the way of natural or moral consideration . For first , suppose the invi- dious thing , designed in such a manner of expres- sion , were really implied , as it is not in the ...
... intended by it is really no difficulty at all , either in the way of natural or moral consideration . For first , suppose the invi- dious thing , designed in such a manner of expres- sion , were really implied , as it is not in the ...
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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.