The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... notion of spirituals , or of things ap- pertaining to spirituals ; as soon as she had ac- quired a prescriptive right of employing the civil power in spiritual quarrels , and the spiritual power in civil , she claimed a sovereign and ...
... notion of spirituals , or of things ap- pertaining to spirituals ; as soon as she had ac- quired a prescriptive right of employing the civil power in spiritual quarrels , and the spiritual power in civil , she claimed a sovereign and ...
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... notion of magick natural and theurgick . The imposition was gross , no doubt , and the prac- tice a cheat . But if we had in our hands the apologies of these hereticks , as we have those of the orthodox , I suspect , that we should find ...
... notion of magick natural and theurgick . The imposition was gross , no doubt , and the prac- tice a cheat . But if we had in our hands the apologies of these hereticks , as we have those of the orthodox , I suspect , that we should find ...
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... notions , institutions , and customs of the Eastern and Egyptian nations creeped into christianity , round about through Judaism at first , and after- ward directly . Every one took of this tinsel , as I called it above , what he liked ...
... notions , institutions , and customs of the Eastern and Egyptian nations creeped into christianity , round about through Judaism at first , and after- ward directly . Every one took of this tinsel , as I called it above , what he liked ...
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... notions was to promote superstition , and to make God the object of it , the indirect ten- dency of those I am going to mention was to pro- mote polytheism and idolatry . It would not be to the purpose to collect many things , which Pa ...
... notions was to promote superstition , and to make God the object of it , the indirect ten- dency of those I am going to mention was to pro- mote polytheism and idolatry . It would not be to the purpose to collect many things , which Pa ...
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... notions as these should carry men not only to think very truly of the incomprehensibility of God , but to imagine , according to the grossness of their con- ceptions , that the Creator was too far removed from his creature , the workman ...
... notions as these should carry men not only to think very truly of the incomprehensibility of God , but to imagine , according to the grossness of their con- ceptions , that the Creator was too far removed from his creature , the workman ...
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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...