Prospect: Or, View of the Moral World, Volume 1E. Palmer, 1803 - Christianity |
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... effects have been so destructive among the human race . Tur energy of thought will one day teach fanaticism that her native home is hell ! WAR is the curse and scourge of the world — yet revea- led religion has generated more wars than ...
... effects have been so destructive among the human race . Tur energy of thought will one day teach fanaticism that her native home is hell ! WAR is the curse and scourge of the world — yet revea- led religion has generated more wars than ...
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... effects of imagination or of mind , dreams are the most uncertain , and the most monstrous - that such he- terogeneous combinations of intellect and of fancy could never be employed by the supreme creator to direct his crea- tures in ...
... effects of imagination or of mind , dreams are the most uncertain , and the most monstrous - that such he- terogeneous combinations of intellect and of fancy could never be employed by the supreme creator to direct his crea- tures in ...
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... effects . An important question has been frequently agitated , whether science be favorable to virtue ? To this the answer ought to be given indubitably in the affirmative.- The apparent but rare exceptions which seem to be at war with ...
... effects . An important question has been frequently agitated , whether science be favorable to virtue ? To this the answer ought to be given indubitably in the affirmative.- The apparent but rare exceptions which seem to be at war with ...
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... effects fully realised in his own ; he will re- ceive not by retail but in gross , the reward of those who visit the prisoner . THE PROGRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . ( Continued from our last . ) BUT when Justin was pressed to ...
... effects fully realised in his own ; he will re- ceive not by retail but in gross , the reward of those who visit the prisoner . THE PROGRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . ( Continued from our last . ) BUT when Justin was pressed to ...
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... effect of an excessive self - love is the over- weaning conceit of one's self , relatively to devotion , and the punctual discharge of religious duties . This is sure to de- clare itself in a contempt of every one who does not make the ...
... effect of an excessive self - love is the over- weaning conceit of one's self , relatively to devotion , and the punctual discharge of religious duties . This is sure to de- clare itself in a contempt of every one who does not make the ...
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Page 122 - I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 126 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 149 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 126 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Page 105 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 149 - And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Page 132 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.
Page 143 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Page 97 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 105 - And God said,' This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.