A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Volumen6T. Becket, 1794 |
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... sufferings of its first teachers --- they could have no motive to deceive mankind --- their doctrine proves that they were not enthusiasts --- a general expecta- tion of a great deliverer.at the time of our Saviour's appearance --- This ...
... sufferings of its first teachers --- they could have no motive to deceive mankind --- their doctrine proves that they were not enthusiasts --- a general expecta- tion of a great deliverer.at the time of our Saviour's appearance --- This ...
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... sufferings , and to delude , in all future ages , the residue of their fellow- creatures ! This is to me a strange and incredi- ble supposition . It has been insinuated , how- ever , that they were encouraged to bear the harshness of ...
... sufferings , and to delude , in all future ages , the residue of their fellow- creatures ! This is to me a strange and incredi- ble supposition . It has been insinuated , how- ever , that they were encouraged to bear the harshness of ...
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... sufferings of such a tedious execution , rather than renounce his re- ligion , or blaspheme his Saviour . Such trials seem to me above the strength of human nature , and able to overbear duty , reason , faith , nay , almost conviction ...
... sufferings of such a tedious execution , rather than renounce his re- ligion , or blaspheme his Saviour . Such trials seem to me above the strength of human nature , and able to overbear duty , reason , faith , nay , almost conviction ...
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... sufferings . He shall be despised and rejected of men , a man of sorrows , and acquainted with grief . He shall be wounded for their transgressions , and bruised for their iniquities ; but with his stripes they shall be healed : he ...
... sufferings . He shall be despised and rejected of men , a man of sorrows , and acquainted with grief . He shall be wounded for their transgressions , and bruised for their iniquities ; but with his stripes they shall be healed : he ...
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... sufferings and death a necessary part of his original plan , and fundamentally and absolutely essential to the success of his mission ? Christ did not , like the philosophers of the hea- thens , content himself with scholastic ...
... sufferings and death a necessary part of his original plan , and fundamentally and absolutely essential to the success of his mission ? Christ did not , like the philosophers of the hea- thens , content himself with scholastic ...
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Página 20 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Página 24 - So shall he sprinkle many nations ; The kings shall shut their mouths at him : For that which had not been told them shall they see; And that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Página 371 - To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Página 39 - For first, there is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education, and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves; of such undoubted integrity, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time, attesting facts performed in...
Página 68 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...
Página 20 - But when ye shall hear of wars, and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Página 20 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Página 115 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Página 40 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but to subtract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion either on one side or the other, with that assurance which arises from the remainder.
Página 300 - ... all that toil, all that anxiety, all those mortifications, which must be undergone in the pursuit of it, and, what is of yet more consequence, all that leisure, all that ease, all that careless security, which are forfeited forever by the acquisition.