The Theological, Philosophical and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. William Jones ...: In Twelve Volumes : to which is Prefixed a Short Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 2F. and C. Rivington, 1801 - Theology |
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Page vii
... gives a contrary turn , or , a wrest to the whole , is not St. Paul's , but his own . If the crime of the Heathens in worshipping their idols , consisted ( according to this author's state of the case ) only in a want of commission ...
... gives a contrary turn , or , a wrest to the whole , is not St. Paul's , but his own . If the crime of the Heathens in worshipping their idols , consisted ( according to this author's state of the case ) only in a want of commission ...
Page xiv
... give a proper account of the antidote , and enable the reader , as well as I can , to comprehend the force and propriety of it , it will be requisite to premise a few of the author's principles , as they are to be collected from that ...
... give a proper account of the antidote , and enable the reader , as well as I can , to comprehend the force and propriety of it , it will be requisite to premise a few of the author's principles , as they are to be collected from that ...
Page xvi
... give the reader any edification or amusement by a critical discussion of a very long passage , unlikely to afford either . But I must not throw his book aside , without giving some short account of his language ; I mean , of his candour ...
... give the reader any edification or amusement by a critical discussion of a very long passage , unlikely to afford either . But I must not throw his book aside , without giving some short account of his language ; I mean , of his candour ...
Page xvii
... gives us a taste of his vanity ; and shews , that in his opinion the Arians are the elect people of God , the true Israelites , whilst all the opposers of their doctrine ( which I hope includes every good christian in the nation ) are ...
... gives us a taste of his vanity ; and shews , that in his opinion the Arians are the elect people of God , the true Israelites , whilst all the opposers of their doctrine ( which I hope includes every good christian in the nation ) are ...
Page xxi
... give him satis- faction to the best of my abilities , and with serious- ness and moderation . But if any writer should unfor- tunately fix upon the same plan with the author of this Defence , and persuade himself that he can invali ...
... give him satis- faction to the best of my abilities , and with serious- ness and moderation . But if any writer should unfor- tunately fix upon the same plan with the author of this Defence , and persuade himself that he can invali ...
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Page 162 - Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Page 152 - As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Page 106 - I judge it as certain and clear a truth as can any where be delivered, that "the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.
Page 151 - But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 143 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Page 123 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 153 - I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession, that thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 131 - Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Page 312 - Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Page 78 - And therefore of the sundry alterations proposed unto us, we have rejected all such as were either of dangerous consequence (as secretly striking at some established doctrine or laudable practice of the Church of England, or indeed of the whole Catholic Church of Christ), or else of no consequence at all but utterly frivolous and vain.