Views of Christian Truth, Piety, and Morality: Selected from the Writings of Dr. Priestley : with a Memoir of His LifeJ. Munroe and Company, 1834 - 207 páginas |
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... consider what must have been my accumulation of curious papers of various kinds , from the variety and extent of my pursuits , ( greater , unquestionably , than those of most men now living , ) and think what I could not but have felt ...
... consider what must have been my accumulation of curious papers of various kinds , from the variety and extent of my pursuits , ( greater , unquestionably , than those of most men now living , ) and think what I could not but have felt ...
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... consider themselves as bound by the same rules of justice and honor that are acknowledged to bind other men , and therefore , if this be the case , these papers will certainly be returned to me . Of this kind of ill usage , I do not ...
... consider themselves as bound by the same rules of justice and honor that are acknowledged to bind other men , and therefore , if this be the case , these papers will certainly be returned to me . Of this kind of ill usage , I do not ...
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... consider what kind of Christianity is preached here . I am told that the Quakers read it with great avidity , and they have no knowl- edge at all of the proper evidence of Christianity , or the doc- trines of it . Many of them ...
... consider what kind of Christianity is preached here . I am told that the Quakers read it with great avidity , and they have no knowl- edge at all of the proper evidence of Christianity , or the doc- trines of it . Many of them ...
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... consider them as that study of the works of the great Creator , which I shall resume with more advantage hereafter . " In January , 1800 , he wrote thus to Mr. Lindsey . " Your account of my daughter's illness affects me much . So few ...
... consider them as that study of the works of the great Creator , which I shall resume with more advantage hereafter . " In January , 1800 , he wrote thus to Mr. Lindsey . " Your account of my daughter's illness affects me much . So few ...
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... considering how near we both must be to the close of life , in which we could not promise ourselves much more enjoyment , or be of much more use , what remains cannot , according to the com- mon course of nature , be of much value ; and ...
... considering how near we both must be to the close of life , in which we could not promise ourselves much more enjoyment , or be of much more use , what remains cannot , according to the com- mon course of nature , be of much value ; and ...
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Página 22 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Página 35 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Página 23 - And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven.
Página 165 - Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it ; it is more inconceivable that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one should furnish the subject of it.
Página 23 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Página 35 - Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in, and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Página 2 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Página 165 - What sweetness, what purity in his manners ! what an affecting gracefulness in his delivery ! what sublimity in his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! what presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies!
Página 174 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Página 165 - What presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies! How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation...