The Religion of Benjamin FranklinD. Appleton, 1925 - 138 páginas |
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... Sermon on Matth . xii : 28 The Art of Preaching • · 46 58 70 82 A Letter from the Reverend Mr. White- field · A Sermon on the Important Doctrine of Regeneration 94 106 THE RELIGION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CALIFORNIA THE RELIGION OF BENJAMIN.
... Sermon on Matth . xii : 28 The Art of Preaching • · 46 58 70 82 A Letter from the Reverend Mr. White- field · A Sermon on the Important Doctrine of Regeneration 94 106 THE RELIGION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CALIFORNIA THE RELIGION OF BENJAMIN.
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... preachers , churches , and evangelists , some of which we shall consider , never beclouded his fixed confidence in God . On the contrary , they bespeak a deep feel- ing for the existence and reality of the Deity and his meaning in man's ...
... preachers , churches , and evangelists , some of which we shall consider , never beclouded his fixed confidence in God . On the contrary , they bespeak a deep feel- ing for the existence and reality of the Deity and his meaning in man's ...
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... preacher , perhaps I might have continued , not- withstanding the occasion I had for the Sun- day's leisure in my course of study . It might be profitable for preachers to read the incident that finally closed Franklin's attendance on ...
... preacher , perhaps I might have continued , not- withstanding the occasion I had for the Sun- day's leisure in my course of study . It might be profitable for preachers to read the incident that finally closed Franklin's attendance on ...
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... preaching no more . But his churchgoing habits could not be wholly eradicated , even by such bizarre exegesis as had caused his great disgust . In 1734 , when he was twenty - eight years old , there appeared in Phila- delphia a young ...
... preaching no more . But his churchgoing habits could not be wholly eradicated , even by such bizarre exegesis as had caused his great disgust . In 1734 , when he was twenty - eight years old , there appeared in Phila- delphia a young ...
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... preaching that seemed to him unworthy , it did not mean that he dropped all thoughts of religion . On the con- trary , one who reads the letters written during his thirties will discover that he gave much thought to the very essence of ...
... preaching that seemed to him unworthy , it did not mean that he dropped all thoughts of religion . On the con- trary , one who reads the letters written during his thirties will discover that he gave much thought to the very essence of ...
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Página 94 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Página 55 - That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost.
Página 117 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 62 - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Página 100 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Página 59 - I think the system of morals and his religion as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is like to see, but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity...
Página 55 - For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the- majesty coeternal.
Página 61 - TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.
Página 63 - I enter'd upon the execution of this plan for self-examination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Página 55 - The FATHER is made of none: neither created nor begotten. The SON is of the FATHER alone: not made nor created but begotten. The HOLY GHOST is of the FATHER and of the SON: neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.