The Rationale of Religious Enquiry: Or, The Question Stated of Reason, the Bible, and the Church; in Six Lectures |
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... Gospel . First , the ideas of religion and morals which it has learnt by the study of nature and of human life ; in other words , natural religion it protests against all contradiction to these , unless they can be disproved ...
... Gospel . First , the ideas of religion and morals which it has learnt by the study of nature and of human life ; in other words , natural religion it protests against all contradiction to these , unless they can be disproved ...
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... Gospel at home is followed by the journal of its trials abroad ; when its first missionaries bare it to the nations , and threw it into the arena of the world to do battle with ancient superstitions , and — like its persecuted disciples ...
... Gospel at home is followed by the journal of its trials abroad ; when its first missionaries bare it to the nations , and threw it into the arena of the world to do battle with ancient superstitions , and — like its persecuted disciples ...
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... gospel history . Let any one care- fully study the account in the several Evangelists of the calling of the Apostles , attending to time , place , and order , or the narratives in Matthew and in Luke of the casting of the demons into ...
... gospel history . Let any one care- fully study the account in the several Evangelists of the calling of the Apostles , attending to time , place , and order , or the narratives in Matthew and in Luke of the casting of the demons into ...
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... Gospel ; so that he means , that that commission , once put in act , will sweep away the obscurities , and supply the deficiencies which distress them . Many a saying , lost for a while from their incapacity to understand it , will rush ...
... Gospel ; so that he means , that that commission , once put in act , will sweep away the obscurities , and supply the deficiencies which distress them . Many a saying , lost for a while from their incapacity to understand it , will rush ...
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... gospel , during such a reach of ages . It is not to be supposed that he has been baffled all this time in his purposes , and compelled to witness a useless Christian- ity ; or why did he not reserve the gift , till it would no longer ...
... gospel , during such a reach of ages . It is not to be supposed that he has been baffled all this time in his purposes , and compelled to witness a useless Christian- ity ; or why did he not reserve the gift , till it would no longer ...
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RATIONALE OF RELIGIOUS ENQUIRY James 1805-1900 Martineau,Joseph Blanco 1775-1841 White No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 124 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 128 - And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 31 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 152 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 160 - This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God...
Page 28 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven...