The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 10Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1815 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... human folly and human knavery , at the same time ludicrous and melancholy , may find it in a history of the exploits of dæmons , from the days of the Fathers down to modern times ; from about the date of that theatrical little devil of ...
... human folly and human knavery , at the same time ludicrous and melancholy , may find it in a history of the exploits of dæmons , from the days of the Fathers down to modern times ; from about the date of that theatrical little devil of ...
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... human laws may decree to the contrary ; the indecencies in which too many of them have indulged in their writings ; the profane frivolity of Tertullian , in making God himself prescribe the length and measure of women's veils , in a ...
... human laws may decree to the contrary ; the indecencies in which too many of them have indulged in their writings ; the profane frivolity of Tertullian , in making God himself prescribe the length and measure of women's veils , in a ...
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... human under- requiring that we admire the display standing discerns only the want of it , and that it shall not forbid the appeal to human reason while the system is founded on the supposition ment , and human jurisprudence , of analogy ...
... human under- requiring that we admire the display standing discerns only the want of it , and that it shall not forbid the appeal to human reason while the system is founded on the supposition ment , and human jurisprudence , of analogy ...
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... human understanding in the Christian revela- tion , that God is infinitely just , good , and merciful . It is then , irrelevant and frivolous to object , that human reason is out of its limits when it presumes to inquire if any ...
... human understanding in the Christian revela- tion , that God is infinitely just , good , and merciful . It is then , irrelevant and frivolous to object , that human reason is out of its limits when it presumes to inquire if any ...
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... human mind , strongly indicate some striking peculia- rity in our ultimate destination ? All other beings appear to answer the end for which they were created ; they attain their utmost perfection in a short space of time . Man alone is ...
... human mind , strongly indicate some striking peculia- rity in our ultimate destination ? All other beings appear to answer the end for which they were created ; they attain their utmost perfection in a short space of time . Man alone is ...
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Page 403 - Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 148 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams.
Page 87 - If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.
Page 131 - ... that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 82 - Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ...
Page 89 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 82 - WE are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Page 270 - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 269 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Page 378 - And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions ? if the LORD be God, follow him : but if Baal, then follow him.