The Rationale of Religious Enquiry: Or, The Question Stated of Reason, the Bible, and the Church; in Six Lectures |
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... give a reason why they should not form a part of the New Testament ; and a letter actually exists by Clement , the fellow - labourer of Paul , which has as good a claim to stand there , as the letter to the Hebrews or the Gospel of Luke ...
... give a reason why they should not form a part of the New Testament ; and a letter actually exists by Clement , the fellow - labourer of Paul , which has as good a claim to stand there , as the letter to the Hebrews or the Gospel of Luke ...
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... give a dispro- portioned attention to its several parts , or from whom the fluctuation of an eager crowd may intercept the sight of some short movement , or the sound of some short word . these variations , continually amounting to ...
... give a dispro- portioned attention to its several parts , or from whom the fluctuation of an eager crowd may intercept the sight of some short movement , or the sound of some short word . these variations , continually amounting to ...
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... gives it no title to our admission ; and that it is necessary to ask him for evidence before we render him our credit . If you acknowledge any other rule , and say , that personal attestation is sufficient in a question so momentous ...
... gives it no title to our admission ; and that it is necessary to ask him for evidence before we render him our credit . If you acknowledge any other rule , and say , that personal attestation is sufficient in a question so momentous ...
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... give , is , at all events , of extraordinary value ; it offers to put us in possession , by peculiar and infallible sources of information , of the apostolic ideas . Before we accept its offer , it will be well to inquire whether it ...
... give , is , at all events , of extraordinary value ; it offers to put us in possession , by peculiar and infallible sources of information , of the apostolic ideas . Before we accept its offer , it will be well to inquire whether it ...
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... ; to deliver us from the precarious and capricious tribunal of private judgment ; to give us certainty in the place of probability , and Divine evidence instead of human . The faith thus administered is 24 CATHOLIC INFALLIBILITY .
... ; to deliver us from the precarious and capricious tribunal of private judgment ; to give us certainty in the place of probability , and Divine evidence instead of human . The faith thus administered is 24 CATHOLIC INFALLIBILITY .
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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...