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Page iii
... believe , very often afford us the truer Reading . In this Volume I have printed even all the interpolated Texts , even where I knew them to be fuch , but in double Brackets thus [ [ ] ] to gratify the Learned : but I have not in that ...
... believe , very often afford us the truer Reading . In this Volume I have printed even all the interpolated Texts , even where I knew them to be fuch , but in double Brackets thus [ [ ] ] to gratify the Learned : but I have not in that ...
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... believe , fufficient evidence for them without it , tho ' not for the Learned . For I can- not but think , that thofe Pious , and Honeft , Unlearned Readers , who are lefs prejudic'd by Modern Notions , Difputes , and Diftinctions , are ...
... believe , fufficient evidence for them without it , tho ' not for the Learned . For I can- not but think , that thofe Pious , and Honeft , Unlearned Readers , who are lefs prejudic'd by Modern Notions , Difputes , and Diftinctions , are ...
Page vii
... believe the Former to be other than a fpuri- ous or grofly interpolated Work , and fo not worthy of any great Value or Confideration a- mong us ; or the Latter to be any thing else than wild and dangerous Paradoxes , or rather bold and ...
... believe the Former to be other than a fpuri- ous or grofly interpolated Work , and fo not worthy of any great Value or Confideration a- mong us ; or the Latter to be any thing else than wild and dangerous Paradoxes , or rather bold and ...
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... believe of late , a real existence , as of a Son proper- ly coeternal with his Father , by a true Eternal Ge- neration ; but rather a Metaphyfick Existence , in po- tentia , or in the like higher and fublimer Man- ner in the Father , as ...
... believe of late , a real existence , as of a Son proper- ly coeternal with his Father , by a true Eternal Ge- neration ; but rather a Metaphyfick Existence , in po- tentia , or in the like higher and fublimer Man- ner in the Father , as ...
Page xvii
... believe that I am boneft and fincere in my Intentions ; and that if I were not fully convinc'd of the great Impor- tance of what I have to propofe , I would not trouble your Grace , or the World , in this Mat- ter . I am fure I have no ...
... believe that I am boneft and fincere in my Intentions ; and that if I were not fully convinc'd of the great Impor- tance of what I have to propofe , I would not trouble your Grace , or the World , in this Mat- ter . I am fure I have no ...
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Page cxiv - We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy Holy Church.
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Page 123 - Be ye mild at their anger, humble at their boasting; to their blasphemies, return your prayers; to their error, your firmness in the faith : when they are cruel, be ye gentle; not endeavouring to imitate their ways : (let us be their brethren in all kindness and moderation, but let us be followers of the Lord: for who was ever more unjustly used? more destitute? more despised...
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Page cxv - THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowfhip of the Holy Ghoft be with us all evermore.
Page 281 - I spake this as foreseeing the division that should come among you. But He is my witness for whose sake I am in bonds, that I knew nothing from any man : but the Spirit spake, saying...