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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Página xvi
... pursuits , arises from the weight it may give to my attempts to defend Christianity , and to free it from those corruptions which prevent its reception with philosophical and thinking persons , whose influence with the vulgar and the ...
... pursuits , arises from the weight it may give to my attempts to defend Christianity , and to free it from those corruptions which prevent its reception with philosophical and thinking persons , whose influence with the vulgar and the ...
Página xvii
... pursuits that to many others are very proper and useful , appear to me to be altogether insignificant compared to these . I am here in the midst of unbelievers , and even atheists . I had a long conversation with one , an ingenious man ...
... pursuits that to many others are very proper and useful , appear to me to be altogether insignificant compared to these . I am here in the midst of unbelievers , and even atheists . I had a long conversation with one , an ingenious man ...
Página xxvii
... pursuit of me , and would be there that night . All the family believing this and urging me to make my escape , I dressed myself , got on horseback , and with a servent rode to Bridgenorth , where I arrived about two in the morning ...
... pursuit of me , and would be there that night . All the family believing this and urging me to make my escape , I dressed myself , got on horseback , and with a servent rode to Bridgenorth , where I arrived about two in the morning ...
Página xxx
... pursuits , ( greater , unquestionably , than those of most men now living , ) and think what I could not but have felt for their loss , and their dispersion into such hands as they fell into , and who make , Lord's Supper , & c . , many ...
... pursuits , ( greater , unquestionably , than those of most men now living , ) and think what I could not but have felt for their loss , and their dispersion into such hands as they fell into , and who make , Lord's Supper , & c . , many ...
Página xxxviii
... pursuits that afford delight and advantage , and which are calculated to raise us higher in the scale of being . The love of virtue you have implanted in us by precept and example . We will guard and cherish it ; and while we enjoy the ...
... pursuits that afford delight and advantage , and which are calculated to raise us higher in the scale of being . The love of virtue you have implanted in us by precept and example . We will guard and cherish it ; and while we enjoy the ...
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Página lxxx - 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 20 - 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 33 - 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 163 - 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 21 - And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven.
Página 163 - 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 21 - 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 33 - 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 172 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Página 15 - The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind ; and our neighbour as ourselves.