The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... independent on the civil , or from treat- ing with it in form , and being incorporated with it on specific terms of alliance , when christianity became , in a fortunate conjuncture , the establish- ed religion of the empire , that this ...
... independent on the civil , or from treat- ing with it in form , and being incorporated with it on specific terms of alliance , when christianity became , in a fortunate conjuncture , the establish- ed religion of the empire , that this ...
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... independent , on the emperor ; his instru- ments , not his allies ; whatever appearances he might give or suffer them to assume in those so- lemn ecclesiastical farces , wherein he condescend- ed to act , in some respects , a second ...
... independent , on the emperor ; his instru- ments , not his allies ; whatever appearances he might give or suffer them to assume in those so- lemn ecclesiastical farces , wherein he condescend- ed to act , in some respects , a second ...
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... independently of him into particular offices , and had a right to this sort of magistracy in general , which he could neither give nor take away . He should have foreseen , that an abso- lute power over private consciences was in nature ...
... independently of him into particular offices , and had a right to this sort of magistracy in general , which he could neither give nor take away . He should have foreseen , that an abso- lute power over private consciences was in nature ...
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... independent any where , if the here . ticks here spoken of had not revived and propa- gated this abominable opinion . The very contrary happened in the tritheistical system , after the establishment of christianity : and the second and ...
... independent any where , if the here . ticks here spoken of had not revived and propa- gated this abominable opinion . The very contrary happened in the tritheistical system , after the establishment of christianity : and the second and ...
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... independent of God himself . Plato erected a mystick ladder , and he makes Socrates advise his auditors to climb by it into the region of forms , that is , from opinion to knowledge . Malebranche has no need of it . Things out of the ...
... independent of God himself . Plato erected a mystick ladder , and he makes Socrates advise his auditors to climb by it into the region of forms , that is , from opinion to knowledge . Malebranche has no need of it . Things out of the ...
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Page 312 - In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 159 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 163 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Page 256 - Father, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 497 - And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
Page 510 - The gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity.
Page 331 - ... another, and the same consequent fitness or unfitness of the application of different things or different relations one to another, with regard to which, the will of God always and necessarily does determine itself, to choose to act only what is agreeable to justice, equity, goodness and truth...
Page 64 - ... the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments...
Page 310 - Sed justifias primum munus est, ut ne cui quis noceat, nisi lacessitus injuria; deinde, ut communibus utatur pro communibus, privatis ut suis.
Page 401 - ... laws, but a general, and in some sort an habitual, knowledge of the manner in which God is pleased to exercise his supreme power in this system, beyond which we have no concern. We do not see the divine painter, if I may employ so low a comparison on so high a subject; but we grow...