Views of Christian Truth, Piety, and Morality: Selected from the Writings of Dr. Priestley : with a Memoir of His Life |
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... hope , they will still continue to give to them when they are printed , they will find their time and pains not ill bestowed . With respect to children of the first class , I must own that I had not all the encouragement that I wished ...
... hope , they will still continue to give to them when they are printed , they will find their time and pains not ill bestowed . With respect to children of the first class , I must own that I had not all the encouragement that I wished ...
Page xiv
... hope that the idea I then endeavoured to give you of the obligation that naturally lies upon every member of a Christian society , who , on any account whatever , has influence in it ( without any formal nomination to an office ) to ...
... hope that the idea I then endeavoured to give you of the obligation that naturally lies upon every member of a Christian society , who , on any account whatever , has influence in it ( without any formal nomination to an office ) to ...
Page xv
... hope that my always avowing myself to be a Christian , and holding myself ready on all occasions to defend the genuine principles of it , was not with- out its use . Having conversed so much with unbelievers , at home and abroad , I ...
... hope that my always avowing myself to be a Christian , and holding myself ready on all occasions to defend the genuine principles of it , was not with- out its use . Having conversed so much with unbelievers , at home and abroad , I ...
Page xvi
... hope that in due time it will do more . I can truly say , that the greatest satisfaction I receive from the success of my philosophical pursuits , arises from the weight it may give to my attempts to defend Christianity , and to free it ...
... hope that in due time it will do more . I can truly say , that the greatest satisfaction I receive from the success of my philosophical pursuits , arises from the weight it may give to my attempts to defend Christianity , and to free it ...
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... hope from this political movement , and thus made himself obnoxious to the party in power , who saw every thing to fear and abhor . At the same time the Dissenters were strenuously exerting themselves to extort from Parliament an ...
... hope from this political movement , and thus made himself obnoxious to the party in power , who saw every thing to fear and abhor . At the same time the Dissenters were strenuously exerting themselves to extort from Parliament an ...
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Page 22 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 35 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Page 23 - And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven.
Page 165 - Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it ; it is more inconceivable that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one should furnish the subject of it.
Page 23 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Page 35 - Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in, and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Page 2 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 165 - What sweetness, what purity in his manners ! what an affecting gracefulness in his delivery ! what sublimity in his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! what presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies!
Page 174 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Page 165 - What presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies! How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation...