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Joseph Butler. ed Mr Edward Talbot in the divine service , at his living of Hendred , near Wantage . With this gentleman , who was the second son of Dr William Talbot , successively bishop of Oxford , Salisbury , and Durham , Mr Butler ...
Joseph Butler. ed Mr Edward Talbot in the divine service , at his living of Hendred , near Wantage . With this gentleman , who was the second son of Dr William Talbot , successively bishop of Oxford , Salisbury , and Durham , Mr Butler ...
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... living " temple of the Holy Ghost , ” * and therefore , no more than the other , to be profaned or desecrated by any thing that defileth or is impure ; could it be truly said of such a one that he was superstitious , or mistook the ...
... living " temple of the Holy Ghost , ” * and therefore , no more than the other , to be profaned or desecrated by any thing that defileth or is impure ; could it be truly said of such a one that he was superstitious , or mistook the ...
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... living agents now , which we were at the time to which our remembrance can look back ; but still we should be the same persons as we were , though this consciousness of what is past were wanting , though all that had been done by us ...
... living agents now , which we were at the time to which our remembrance can look back ; but still we should be the same persons as we were , though this consciousness of what is past were wanting , though all that had been done by us ...
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... living agents , implied in the notion of our existing now and hereafter , or in any two successive mo- ments ; which whoever thinks it worth while , may see considered in the first Dissertation at the end of this Treatise . But ...
... living agents , implied in the notion of our existing now and hereafter , or in any two successive mo- ments ; which whoever thinks it worth while , may see considered in the first Dissertation at the end of this Treatise . But ...
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... living powers ; because there is in every case a probability , that all things will continue as we experience they are , in all respects , except those in which we have some reason to think they will be altered . This is that kind of ...
... living powers ; because there is in every case a probability , that all things will continue as we experience they are , in all respects , except those in which we have some reason to think they will be altered . This is that kind of ...
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Page xxviii - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Page 52 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Page lix - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 6 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Page 256 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for. See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.
Page 51 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded : but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 335 - And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Page 234 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 256 - For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Page 235 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all...