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 vii
... received impressions of religion and truth from the instructions of his mother , who died when he was seven years old . She was a sincerely religious woman , who carefully taught him the Assembly's Catechism , and was so anxious to ...
... received impressions of religion and truth from the instructions of his mother , who died when he was seven years old . She was a sincerely religious woman , who carefully taught him the Assembly's Catechism , and was so anxious to ...
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... received the honor of the gold medal . He mentions in his Memoirs the pleasant cir- cumstance , that the person in Leeds who alone gave him any aid in his experiments was a zealous methodist , Mr. Hey , who had written against him on ...
... received the honor of the gold medal . He mentions in his Memoirs the pleasant cir- cumstance , that the person in Leeds who alone gave him any aid in his experiments was a zealous methodist , Mr. Hey , who had written against him on ...
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... receive from the success of my philosophical 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 ...
... receive from the success of my philosophical 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 ...
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... received during this visit to Paris ; and there can be no doubt that this was one of the circumstances which instigated him to that perpetual warfare against infidelity , and that earnest , never - ceasing defence of Christianity , by ...
... received during this visit to Paris ; and there can be no doubt that this was one of the circumstances which instigated him to that perpetual warfare against infidelity , and that earnest , never - ceasing defence of Christianity , by ...
Página xix
... received an urgent invitation to become minister of the New Meeting , as colleague with Mr. Blythe ; an invitation which he accepted , with the understanding that Mr. Blythe should perform the duties of the pastoral care , while he ...
... received an urgent invitation to become minister of the New Meeting , as colleague with Mr. Blythe ; an invitation which he accepted , with the understanding that Mr. Blythe should perform the duties of the pastoral care , while he ...
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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...