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 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...