The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... supposed . In that which he writes to the Alexandrians , it appears , that he did not banish Athanasius because he was a bishop , but on account of his in- triguing spirit , and the disturbances he raised . Julian gives the Christians ...
... supposed . In that which he writes to the Alexandrians , it appears , that he did not banish Athanasius because he was a bishop , but on account of his in- triguing spirit , and the disturbances he raised . Julian gives the Christians ...
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... supposed to signify most sublime truths , though they had no meaning at all . The Jews , therefore , who believed in the Messiah when he appeared , and the Heathens , who heard that the Divine Lo- gos had appeared , could not fail to ...
... supposed to signify most sublime truths , though they had no meaning at all . The Jews , therefore , who believed in the Messiah when he appeared , and the Heathens , who heard that the Divine Lo- gos had appeared , could not fail to ...
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... supposed to consist . These were disputes about faith more than works ; and though such of the disputants , as grew , by time , acci- dent , management , or violence , to be reputed orthodox , damned those who differed from them ; yet ...
... supposed to consist . These were disputes about faith more than works ; and though such of the disputants , as grew , by time , acci- dent , management , or violence , to be reputed orthodox , damned those who differed from them ; yet ...
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... supposed to go out of the deity , and to be parti- cipating beings . So they were called , and this class was numberless ; since it contained all the inferior and younger gods , and all the spiritual beings , from the soul of the world ...
... supposed to go out of the deity , and to be parti- cipating beings . So they were called , and this class was numberless ; since it contained all the inferior and younger gods , and all the spiritual beings , from the soul of the world ...
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... supposed irregular , unjust distribution of them , consistently with the belief of a Supreme Being , infinitely good . This was enough for such Arabian and Persian philosophers , as Scythianus , Terebinthus , or Manes , and indeed for ...
... supposed irregular , unjust distribution of them , consistently with the belief of a Supreme Being , infinitely good . This was enough for such Arabian and Persian philosophers , as Scythianus , Terebinthus , or Manes , and indeed for ...
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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...