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... live by their professions : but it is a suggestion that easily takes hold of weak minds , and especially such as catch at objections , and are willing to be caught by them . And , considering the diligence of the PREFACE . xix.
... live by their professions : but it is a suggestion that easily takes hold of weak minds , and especially such as catch at objections , and are willing to be caught by them . And , considering the diligence of the PREFACE . xix.
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... live without giving them- selves any trouble , or so much as any thought , in this affair . I cannot but be touched with a hearty compas- asion for those who sincerely groan under this dis- satisfaction ; who look upon it as the ...
... live without giving them- selves any trouble , or so much as any thought , in this affair . I cannot but be touched with a hearty compas- asion for those who sincerely groan under this dis- satisfaction ; who look upon it as the ...
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... live with such a disposition ought to be made sensible of its ab- surdity and stupidity , by having their inward re- flections laid open to them , that they may grow wise by the prospect of their own folly . For be hold how men are wont ...
... live with such a disposition ought to be made sensible of its ab- surdity and stupidity , by having their inward re- flections laid open to them , that they may grow wise by the prospect of their own folly . For be hold how men are wont ...
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... by the sanctity of their lives , yet are , at least , admirably useful in shewing the corruption of nature , by so unnatural sentiments and suggestions . Nothing is so important to any man as his own 6 INTRODUCTION .
... by the sanctity of their lives , yet are , at least , admirably useful in shewing the corruption of nature , by so unnatural sentiments and suggestions . Nothing is so important to any man as his own 6 INTRODUCTION .
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... from it , it is to these alone that we can in justice afford our labour and service , for their direction in finding out that light of which they feel the want . But as for those who live without either knowing God 10 INTRODUCTION .
... from it , it is to these alone that we can in justice afford our labour and service , for their direction in finding out that light of which they feel the want . But as for those who live without either knowing God 10 INTRODUCTION .
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Page 154 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 203 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 182 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 205 - ... there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ! or where ! — This world was made for Caesar.
Page 73 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 157 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Page 127 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: they shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 141 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 127 - When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did he see it and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 85 - Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards: Which if it be probable, we have reason then to be persuaded^ that there are far more Species of Creatures above us, than there are beneath; we being in degrees of perfection, much more remote from the infinite Being of God, than we are from the lowest state of Being, and that which approaches nearest to nothing.