Origines Sacrae: Or, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2The University Press, 1836 - Apologetics |
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... worship by sacrifices ; the one by way of im- petration , for bestowing of good ; the other by way of deprecation , for averting of evil . Such , Plutarch there tells us , were the Oromasdes and Arimanius of Zoro- astres , which were ...
... worship by sacrifices ; the one by way of im- petration , for bestowing of good ; the other by way of deprecation , for averting of evil . Such , Plutarch there tells us , were the Oromasdes and Arimanius of Zoro- astres , which were ...
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... worship of Apollo at Delphi was under the form of a serpent ; whither Nonnus tells us that 1627 . Cadmus the Phoenician went upon his first coming into Boeotia ; and from hence he derives the name Pytho , from the Hebrew , which ...
... worship of Apollo at Delphi was under the form of a serpent ; whither Nonnus tells us that 1627 . Cadmus the Phoenician went upon his first coming into Boeotia ; and from hence he derives the name Pytho , from the Hebrew , which ...
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... worship of Vulcan , hath been very probably conceived , both from the very great affinity of the names , and that Tubal - Cain is expressly men- tioned to be an instructer of every artificer in brass Gen. iv . 22 . and iron ; and as ...
... worship of Vulcan , hath been very probably conceived , both from the very great affinity of the names , and that Tubal - Cain is expressly men- tioned to be an instructer of every artificer in brass Gen. iv . 22 . and iron ; and as ...
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... worship is founded on the dictates of nature , all instituted worship on God's revealed will ; and it is one of the prime dictates of nature , that God must be universally obeyed . Besides , God requires nothing but what is apparently ...
... worship is founded on the dictates of nature , all instituted worship on God's revealed will ; and it is one of the prime dictates of nature , that God must be universally obeyed . Besides , God requires nothing but what is apparently ...
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... worship ; and Herodotus seems to be of the same opinion . Plutarch saith it was Isid . et done by Osiris ; and Diodorus Siculus saith , it was di- Diod . Sic . rected by Hermes , who was a great politician , and chief counsellor to ...
... worship ; and Herodotus seems to be of the same opinion . Plutarch saith it was Isid . et done by Osiris ; and Diodorus Siculus saith , it was di- Diod . Sic . rected by Hermes , who was a great politician , and chief counsellor to ...
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