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 xiv
... influence in it ( without any formal nomination to an office ) to contribute all that may be in his power to the real benefit of it , by instruction , reproof , or any other way , will not be wholly without effect ; and that you will ...
... influence in it ( without any formal nomination to an office ) to contribute all that may be in his power to the real benefit of it , by instruction , reproof , or any other way , will not be wholly without effect ; and that you will ...
Página xvi
... influence with the vulgar and the unthinking is very great . " From Paris he wrote to Mr. Lindsey as follows : “ I am quite tired of the idleness in which I spend my time here , and long exceedingly to be about my experiments , or some ...
... influence with the vulgar and the unthinking is very great . " From Paris he wrote to Mr. Lindsey as follows : “ I am quite tired of the idleness in which I spend my time here , and long exceedingly to be about my experiments , or some ...
Página xvii
... influence the life in the most favor- able manner . The more I read the history of the death of Christ , in particular , the more reasons I think I see why he was to suffer ; at least I see the old ones in a stronger light and feel more ...
... influence the life in the most favor- able manner . The more I read the history of the death of Christ , in particular , the more reasons I think I see why he was to suffer ; at least I see the old ones in a stronger light and feel more ...
Página xxxiv
... influence , were full of the grossest abuse of the Dissenters , and especially of myself , and such narratives of the proceedings were published as cannot be accounted for from mistake or misapprehension , but must have been wilfully ...
... influence , were full of the grossest abuse of the Dissenters , and especially of myself , and such narratives of the proceedings were published as cannot be accounted for from mistake or misapprehension , but must have been wilfully ...
Página xxxviii
... influence extends . It shall be our grand object to endeavour to follow your example in a firm adherence to what we believe to be the cause of truth , in pre- serving our minds open to convictiou , and in the cultivation . of fortitude ...
... influence extends . It shall be our grand object to endeavour to follow your example in a firm adherence to what we believe to be the cause of truth , in pre- serving our minds open to convictiou , and in the cultivation . of fortitude ...
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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...