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Page ii
... religion . Some passages , it must be acknow- ledged , seem , at the first glance , to recommend Epicurean enjoyments , and to countenance atheistic folly ; but , we may rest assured , there are none such in reality , and that whatever ...
... religion . Some passages , it must be acknow- ledged , seem , at the first glance , to recommend Epicurean enjoyments , and to countenance atheistic folly ; but , we may rest assured , there are none such in reality , and that whatever ...
Page x
... religion . As , notwithstanding his former vices , he was now become a real convert , and a zealous preacher of righteousness , there seems a peculiar propriety in selecting an appellation expressive of this circumstance . IV . Obj ...
... religion . As , notwithstanding his former vices , he was now become a real convert , and a zealous preacher of righteousness , there seems a peculiar propriety in selecting an appellation expressive of this circumstance . IV . Obj ...
Page xxv
... religion .. Were any book enrolled among the Holy Scrip- tures as sacred , while it was only a mere human production , and ascribed to an author by whom it was not written , how could this be reconcile- able with the infallibility of ...
... religion .. Were any book enrolled among the Holy Scrip- tures as sacred , while it was only a mere human production , and ascribed to an author by whom it was not written , how could this be reconcile- able with the infallibility of ...
Page xxvi
... religion . Truths hitherto deemed sacred , opinions consecrated by time and universal reception , and doctrines revered as the essence of celestial revelation , are proudly trampled upon in the desolation of its march . Yet our age has ...
... religion . Truths hitherto deemed sacred , opinions consecrated by time and universal reception , and doctrines revered as the essence of celestial revelation , are proudly trampled upon in the desolation of its march . Yet our age has ...
Page xxvii
... religion with a desponding eye . If the pride of unchastised literature has borne an extensive sway , orthodoxy has to boast of champions never excelled for intellectual ability and profundity of erudition . Their efforts have been ...
... religion with a desponding eye . If the pride of unchastised literature has borne an extensive sway , orthodoxy has to boast of champions never excelled for intellectual ability and profundity of erudition . Their efforts have been ...
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Page 167 - I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Page 12 - For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God.
Page 5 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 119 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 16 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page lv - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 37 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page lxxxviii - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 42 - DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour : so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Page lvi - There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.