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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... ages , and to take off our wonder at all the heresies that arose in the Christian church , by observing how easy it was to suppose a divine mission , or even to assume in opinion a divine nature . The appearance of false prophets , as ...
... ages , and to take off our wonder at all the heresies that arose in the Christian church , by observing how easy it was to suppose a divine mission , or even to assume in opinion a divine nature . The appearance of false prophets , as ...
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... ages of Christianity , much as it has fared since with the mother of God . Strong figurative expressions , which the apostles employed on some , which other doctors and saints employed on all occasions , and which were animated ...
... ages of Christianity , much as it has fared since with the mother of God . Strong figurative expressions , which the apostles employed on some , which other doctors and saints employed on all occasions , and which were animated ...
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... ages ; or if we consult , with due discernment , those who have made them their study . Many of the primitive Christians , struck with religious awe , had a very reasonable scruple of using any appellations which were not contained in ...
... ages ; or if we consult , with due discernment , those who have made them their study . Many of the primitive Christians , struck with religious awe , had a very reasonable scruple of using any appellations which were not contained in ...
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... ages of Chris- tianity , deposed against this trinity . Scriptures stood in oppo- sition to Scriptures , and ... age may boast , that they derive their pedigree from Paul of Samosata , a great bishop of the third century . This century ...
... ages of Chris- tianity , deposed against this trinity . Scriptures stood in oppo- sition to Scriptures , and ... age may boast , that they derive their pedigree from Paul of Samosata , a great bishop of the third century . This century ...
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... age were given up to insatiable avarice ; that the clergy were unsound in their faith , and licentious in their manners ; that the men were effeminate , and disgraced their beards ; that the women were coquet and lewd ; for he accuses ...
... age were given up to insatiable avarice ; that the clergy were unsound in their faith , and licentious in their manners ; that the men were effeminate , and disgraced their beards ; that the women were coquet and lewd ; for he accuses ...
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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 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 403 - 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...
Page 139 - Tum Velleius fidenter sane, ut solent isti, nihil tam verens quam ne dubitare aliqua de re videretur...
Page 361 - It is not only true, but obvious, that man is connected by his nature, and, therefore, by the design of the Author of all nature, with the whole tribe of animals, and so closely with some of them, that the distance between his intellectual faculties and theirs, which constitutes as really, though not so sensibly as figure, the difference of species, appears, in many instances, small, and would probably appear still less, if we had the means of knowing their motives, as we have of observing their...
Page 252 - ... preferable, because there are only two things compared. I shall subjoin to this an inaccuracy in a comparison of equality, where, though the positive degree only is used, the construction must be similar to that of the comparative, both being followed by conjunctions which govern no case. " Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but Rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as them."f Grammatically they, the verb are being understood.