 All the sophistry, all the colour of plausibility, all the argument and cunning of the subtlest disputer in the world, may be laid open and turned to the advantage of that very truth which they designed to hide or to depress : but against authority there...  The third and last cordial for low spirits - Page 180by Thomas Gordon - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1731 - 440 pages
...Prayers in an unknown Tongue ; Pray" ers to Multitudes of Beings ; and the whole Load " of Abfurdities and Depravations of true Religion, " under which the...Props that fupported them — It was " AUTHoRITY, uhich recommended and guarded " Them, by Difgraces and by Inlmlltions ; by ma•' I:ing it infamous,... | |
 | Caleb D'Anvers - 1731 - 444 pages
...Prayers in an unknown Tongue ; Pray«« ers to Multitudes of Beings ; and the whole Load " of Abfurdities and Depravations of true Religion,, under which the chriftian People were in Captivity rf till They becime grofs and weighty enough at laft to break the Props that fupported them — It... | |
 | Thomas Gordon - Great Britain - 1763 - 356 pages
...prayers in " an unknown tongue, prayers to ^multitudes " of beings, and the whole load of abfurditiet " and depravations of true religion, under which " the...at laft " to break the props that fupported them. I( " was authority which would have prevented " all reformation^ where it is ; and which hat " put... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - Dissenters, Religious - 1829 - 534 pages
...degrees, not only laid waste the honour of Christianity, but well nigh extinguished it amongst men. It was authority which would have prevented all reformation where it is, and which has put a barrier against it wherever it is not. How, indeed, can it be expected that the same thing which has in all... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1833 - 980 pages
...degrees, not only laid waste the honour of Christianity, but well nigh extinguished it amongst men. onvicted of heresy, either by their own voluntary or extorted confession, or wliich has put a barrier against it wherever it is not. The remark of Charles II. is worthy of notice... | |
 | Benjamin Hoadly (bp. of Winchester.) - 1836 - 118 pages
...were in captivity, till they became gross and weighty enough at last to break the props that supported them. It was authority which would have prevented...reformation where it is, and which has put a barrier against it wherever it is not. It was human authority in religion which alone set up itself against... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 426 pages
...that very truth which they designed to hide or to depress : but against authority there is no defence. It was authority which would have prevented all reformation where it is; and which has put a barrier against it wherever it is not." AUTO-BIOGRAPHY— Drawing a portrait of yourself with a pen and ink,... | |
 | Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 326 pages
...very truth, which they designed to hide or to depress : but against authority there is no defence. It was authority which would have prevented all reformation where it is ; and which has put a barrier against it wherever it is not." AUTO-BIOGRAPHY— Drawing a portrait of yourself with a pen and ink,... | |
 | Richard Burdon Sanderson - Bible - 1838 - 286 pages
...degrees not only laid waste the honour of Christianity, but well nigh extinguished it amongst men. It was authority, which would have prevented all reformation, where it is, and which has put a barrier against it where it is not. How, indeed, can it be expected, that the same thing, which has, in all... | |
 | john forbes m.d. f.r.s .f.g.s - 1841 - 606 pages
...that very truth which they designed to hide or to depress, but against authority there is no defence. It was authority which would have prevented all reformation where it is, and which has put a barrier against it where it is not." • The spirit of unbounded respect for authority is, it would appear,... | |
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