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 xvii
... considerable writer , who maintained that man might have sprung out of the earth by spontaneous genera- tion ; and I was told by another , that I was the first believer in Christianity that he had met with of whose understanding he had ...
... considerable writer , who maintained that man might have sprung out of the earth by spontaneous genera- tion ; and I was told by another , that I was the first believer in Christianity that he had met with of whose understanding he had ...
Página xxvi
... considerable distance , and being upon a rising ground , we distinctly heard all that passed at the house , every shout of the mob , and almost every stroke of the instruments they had provided for breaking the doors and the furniture ...
... considerable distance , and being upon a rising ground , we distinctly heard all that passed at the house , every shout of the mob , and almost every stroke of the instruments they had provided for breaking the doors and the furniture ...
Página xli
... considerable reward , as he said , it was so easy for him to have done it . My friends earnestly advised me to disguise myself , as I was going to London . But all that was done in that way , was taking a place for me in the mail- coach ...
... considerable reward , as he said , it was so easy for him to have done it . My friends earnestly advised me to disguise myself , as I was going to London . But all that was done in that way , was taking a place for me in the mail- coach ...
Página xliv
... considerable sum in improving it . I also determined , with the assistance of my friends , to resume my philosophical and other pursuits ; and after an interrup- tion amounting to about two years , it was with a pleasure that I cannot ...
... considerable sum in improving it . I also determined , with the assistance of my friends , to resume my philosophical and other pursuits ; and after an interrup- tion amounting to about two years , it was with a pleasure that I cannot ...
Página lxii
... considerable portion of Scripture every day , and by this means my mind is much relieved ; and having good health , my spirits are naturally good . Besides , I often think how small a proportion my afflictions bear to those of many ...
... considerable portion of Scripture every day , and by this means my mind is much relieved ; and having good health , my spirits are naturally good . Besides , I often think how small a proportion my afflictions bear to those of many ...
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Página 35 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith : I will return into my house from whence I came out ; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 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 23 - 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 165 - Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation!
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 174 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Página 17 - 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.
Página lxxiv - But let not his attainments be depreciated, because they are numerous almost without a parallel. Let not his talents be ridiculed, because they are superlatively great. Let not his morals be villified, because they are correct without austerity, and exemplary without ostentation...