The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian RevelationClarendon Press, 1801 - 354 páginas |
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... virtue of this great principle within them . All the dead parts of nature are invigorated by the presence of their Creator , and made capable of ex- erting their respective qualities . The fe- veral inftincts , in the brute creation ...
... virtue of this great principle within them . All the dead parts of nature are invigorated by the presence of their Creator , and made capable of ex- erting their respective qualities . The fe- veral inftincts , in the brute creation ...
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... virtue , which have neither found , 6 nor colour , nor fmell , nor taste , nor fi- ' gure , nor any other fenfible quality , they ' can doubt of thy Existence , because thou ' art not apprehended by the groffer or- 6 gans of fenfe ...
... virtue , which have neither found , 6 nor colour , nor fmell , nor taste , nor fi- ' gure , nor any other fenfible quality , they ' can doubt of thy Existence , because thou ' art not apprehended by the groffer or- 6 gans of fenfe ...
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... his real merit , fince Providence would have no op- portunity of rewarding his virtue and per- fections , but in the prefent life . A vir- tuous tuous unbeliever , who lies under the pres- fure of 164 THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD .
... his real merit , fince Providence would have no op- portunity of rewarding his virtue and per- fections , but in the prefent life . A vir- tuous tuous unbeliever , who lies under the pres- fure of 164 THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD .
Página 165
... virtue , I have worshipped thee ' as a fubftantial good ; but I find thou art 6 an empty name . ' But to return to our first point : though prudence does undoubtedly , in a great measure , produce our good or ill fortune in the world ...
... virtue , I have worshipped thee ' as a fubftantial good ; but I find thou art 6 an empty name . ' But to return to our first point : though prudence does undoubtedly , in a great measure , produce our good or ill fortune in the world ...
Página 168
... virtue , we may be sure they are highly difpleafing to that Being who delights in an humble mind , and by feveral of his dispensations seems purposely to fhew us , that our own schemes or prudence have no share in our advance- ments ...
... virtue , we may be sure they are highly difpleafing to that Being who delights in an humble mind , and by feveral of his dispensations seems purposely to fhew us , that our own schemes or prudence have no share in our advance- ments ...
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Página 98 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 231 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Página 96 - We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works...
Página 137 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Página 93 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Página 294 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope.
Página xvii - ... there were between God and our Saviour, in reference to his kingdom. We know not what need there was to set up a head and a chieftain, in opposition to " the prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air,
Página 252 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Página 115 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 137 - THOSE who were skilful in anatomy, among the ancients, concluded, from the outward and inward make of an human body, that it was the work of a Being transcendently wise and powerful. As the world grew more enlightened in this art, their discoveries gave them fresh opportunities of admiring the conduct of Providence in the formation of a human body.