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 iii
... friend who proposed to do it at his leisure . Meantime some recent abusive notices of Priestley recalled my attention to the subject , and seemed to present a fitting occasion for a work which would at once instruct and animate ...
... friend who proposed to do it at his leisure . Meantime some recent abusive notices of Priestley recalled my attention to the subject , and seemed to present a fitting occasion for a work which would at once instruct and animate ...
Página vii
... friendship with several of the most heretical ministers in the vicinity . Thus he was brought up , as he tells us , * " with sentiments of piety , but without big- otry ; and having , from his earliest years , given much attention to ...
... friendship with several of the most heretical ministers in the vicinity . Thus he was brought up , as he tells us , * " with sentiments of piety , but without big- otry ; and having , from his earliest years , given much attention to ...
Página viii
... friends , that he would place himself in the Academy at Mile - end , under the care of Dr. Conder . But this he resolutely oppos- ed ; because he would there not only be required to relate his experience , but " to subscribe his assent ...
... friends , that he would place himself in the Academy at Mile - end , under the care of Dr. Conder . But this he resolutely oppos- ed ; because he would there not only be required to relate his experience , but " to subscribe his assent ...
Página xvii
... friend . " I was more shocked at the superstition of the Catholics than I expected to have been ; but found some of their priests very intelligent and candid , and some of them as truly Chris- tian characters , in all respects , as any ...
... friend . " I was more shocked at the superstition of the Catholics than I expected to have been ; but found some of their priests very intelligent and candid , and some of them as truly Chris- tian characters , in all respects , as any ...
Página xviii
... friends of commerce and of peace . The king is , on all hands , agreed to have nothing at all in him , and while he is in good hands , all will do well . But there are many persons disaffected , intriguing , lovers of war , and violent ...
... friends of commerce and of peace . The king is , on all hands , agreed to have nothing at all in him , and while he is in good hands , all will do well . But there are many persons disaffected , intriguing , lovers of war , and violent ...
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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...