The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaff̌ected Elergvmen ...John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon J. Peele, 1732 |
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... many Trials and long Experience , that they are but heavy Intriguers , and fadly want both the Temper and Talents of Politicians . The Proteftant Religion being a plain one , fupported by obvious Truth and common xii DEDICATION .
... many Trials and long Experience , that they are but heavy Intriguers , and fadly want both the Temper and Talents of Politicians . The Proteftant Religion being a plain one , fupported by obvious Truth and common xii DEDICATION .
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... plain one , fupported by obvious Truth and common Sense , and requiring no Managements or Fineffe to make it go down with the People , would fit them well enough , if they could be content with it . But it is quite otherwise with the ...
... plain one , fupported by obvious Truth and common Sense , and requiring no Managements or Fineffe to make it go down with the People , would fit them well enough , if they could be content with it . But it is quite otherwise with the ...
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... plain from your Lives , cannot govern your felves better than others ? Have we not feen their Heads as deep in wicked Counsel , and their Hands as deep in Crimes , as the Heads and Hands Hands of any Society of Men upon Earth ? And XXX ...
... plain from your Lives , cannot govern your felves better than others ? Have we not feen their Heads as deep in wicked Counsel , and their Hands as deep in Crimes , as the Heads and Hands Hands of any Society of Men upon Earth ? And XXX ...
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... plain and intelligible Pre- cepts of the Gofpel ? Precepts which had ne- ver been made Matters of fuch Difpute , if thefe dreaming and wrangling Dotards had not mul- tiplied gigantick Volumes in confounding Hu- man Understanding about ...
... plain and intelligible Pre- cepts of the Gofpel ? Precepts which had ne- ver been made Matters of fuch Difpute , if thefe dreaming and wrangling Dotards had not mul- tiplied gigantick Volumes in confounding Hu- man Understanding about ...
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... plain Duties , fulfils the Law and the Gospel . IT was most agreeable to the infinite Good- nefs and tender Mercies of God , to make e- very Thing which he requires of us weak Men , obvious and clear . The Importance of the Duty implies ...
... plain Duties , fulfils the Law and the Gospel . IT was most agreeable to the infinite Good- nefs and tender Mercies of God , to make e- very Thing which he requires of us weak Men , obvious and clear . The Importance of the Duty implies ...
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Página 99 - Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Página 48 - Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Página 38 - If it is not evident, we cannot help rejecting it or doubting of it ; and where is the crime of not performing impossibilities, or not believing what does not appear to us to be true...
Página 62 - But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou (halt not eat of it : for in the day that thou eateft thereof, J thou (halt furely die.
Página 71 - And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue : whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Página 97 - ... that such form and manner of making and consecrating of archbishops, bishops, priests, deacons, and other ministers of the Church, as by six prelates, and six other men of this realm, learned in God's law, by the king's majesty to be appointed and assigned, or by the most number of them shall be devised for that purpose, and set forth under the great seal of England, before the first day of April next coming...
Página 120 - Popish clergy will laugh in their sleeves at this advice, and think there is folly enough yet left among the laity to support their authority ; and will hug themselves, and rejoice over the ignorance of the Universities, the stupidity of the drunken squires, the panic of the tender sex, and the never-to-be-shaken constancy of the multitude.
Página 136 - They reason against reason, use reason against the use of reason, and show, from very good reason, that reason is good for nothing. When they think it on their own side, then they apply all its aids to convince or confound those who dare to think without their concurrence : therefore, in their controversies about religion, they frequently appeal to reason ; but we must not accept the appeal, for if our reason be not their reason, it is no reason.
Página 96 - ... commonly called ecclesiastical jurisdiction: nevertheless the Bishop of Rome and his adherents, minding utterly as much as in him lay to abolish, obscure, and delete such power given by God to the princes of the earth, whereby they might gather and get to themselves the government and rule of the world, have in their councils and synods provincial made divers ordinances and constitutions that no lay or married man should...
Página 59 - ... to make it impenetrable. Scripture was not given to make work for interpreters; nor to teach men how to doubt, but how to live. The Holy Spirit has made undeniably clear and manifest, all those precepts that enjoin faith and obedience, which are the great points of religion ; and weak men cannot correct him, and do it better themselves.