Rational Religion and Morals: Presenting Analysis of the Functions of Mind, Under the Operations and Directions of Reason: The First, Eliciting the Necessary, Rational, and Only Religion, Monotheism .. the Second, the Obvious Duties and Precautions of Society |
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... corruption and evil . Those who adopt such doctrine knowingly , present a corrupt doctrine of faith , not sustainable in any moral attributes of exalted social relations . This confusion is plain in the world , from dreadful conflicts ...
... corruption and evil . Those who adopt such doctrine knowingly , present a corrupt doctrine of faith , not sustainable in any moral attributes of exalted social relations . This confusion is plain in the world , from dreadful conflicts ...
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... corrupt misconstructions , unsuited to mind as less exact in science . Principles alone can elevate mind , the want of them alone degrade it . The bible of mind alone can impart those that hold mind on a balance and reputation of ...
... corrupt misconstructions , unsuited to mind as less exact in science . Principles alone can elevate mind , the want of them alone degrade it . The bible of mind alone can impart those that hold mind on a balance and reputation of ...
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... corrupt and vitiated , from the corruption of the times , and the perversion of mind . Much of it is seriously degraded and brutalized by the circumstances affecting it- some is debased despite of much effort to elevate it aright ...
... corrupt and vitiated , from the corruption of the times , and the perversion of mind . Much of it is seriously degraded and brutalized by the circumstances affecting it- some is debased despite of much effort to elevate it aright ...
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... corrupt . The tendency and facility in all such communities will be most easy , and too common to perjury . Such will be the inevitable result . Banish from society all such banes as fundamental and organic errors and sophistries , then ...
... corrupt . The tendency and facility in all such communities will be most easy , and too common to perjury . Such will be the inevitable result . Banish from society all such banes as fundamental and organic errors and sophistries , then ...
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... corrupt angels , much less archangels to devils . All these are fictions , unknown to rational mind . God was too good , my reverence tells me , to originate devils . The nearest to it is mind perverted in its free agency , limited to ...
... corrupt angels , much less archangels to devils . All these are fictions , unknown to rational mind . God was too good , my reverence tells me , to originate devils . The nearest to it is mind perverted in its free agency , limited to ...
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Page 472 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 285 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 480 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 486 - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
Page 489 - And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 477 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 500 - Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more...
Page 285 - Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
Page 488 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Page 488 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.