Sacred Classics, Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity: Analogy of religion, natural and revealedJ. Hatchard&Son, 1834 - Christianity |
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... given the world a volume which had the rare for- tune of establishing itself in the highest philoso- phical rank of its day ; and of reaching ours with- out a decrease of its honours . The usual fate of philosophical speculation is , to ...
... given the world a volume which had the rare for- tune of establishing itself in the highest philoso- phical rank of its day ; and of reaching ours with- out a decrease of its honours . The usual fate of philosophical speculation is , to ...
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... given as LL . D .; but a literary friend of Butler's own college , ( Oriel , ) informs me that it should be D. C. L. ( Doctor of Civil Law ; ) the university not having had the power of conferring degress in Canon Law for some centuries ...
... given as LL . D .; but a literary friend of Butler's own college , ( Oriel , ) informs me that it should be D. C. L. ( Doctor of Civil Law ; ) the university not having had the power of conferring degress in Canon Law for some centuries ...
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... given day in January next ; probable that there will on some day of the month ; and that there is a moral certainty , i . e . ground for an expectation without any doubt of it , in some part or other of the winter . Probable evidence ...
... given day in January next ; probable that there will on some day of the month ; and that there is a moral certainty , i . e . ground for an expectation without any doubt of it , in some part or other of the winter . Probable evidence ...
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... does it in any wise cease to be of weight in those cases , be- cause persons , either given to dispute , or who re- See chap . vi . part ii . quire things to be stated with greater exactness than our 6 THE AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION .
... does it in any wise cease to be of weight in those cases , be- cause persons , either given to dispute , or who re- See chap . vi . part ii . quire things to be stated with greater exactness than our 6 THE AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION .
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... powers , up to the very period to which we have faculties capable of tracing them , is itself a probability of their retaining them , beyond it . And this is confirmed , and a sensible credibility is given C 2 OF A FUTURE LIFE . 19.
... powers , up to the very period to which we have faculties capable of tracing them , is itself a probability of their retaining them , beyond it . And this is confirmed , and a sensible credibility is given C 2 OF A FUTURE LIFE . 19.
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Page 223 - 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 226 - 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 204 - 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 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 ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 47 - How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity, and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge ? Turn ye at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my Spirit upon you, I will make known my words unto you.
Page 224 - 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 170 - 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 287 - 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.
Page 48 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Page 228 - How and in what particular way it had this efficacy, there are not wanting persons who have endeavoured to explain : but I do not find that the Scripture has explained it.