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... Suppose that Voltaire and Thomas Paine , and Volney and Hume and Hobbes had cried out when dying " My God , My God , why hast thou forsaken me ? " what would the clergymen of this city then have said ? 66 To resort to these foolish ...
... Suppose that Voltaire and Thomas Paine , and Volney and Hume and Hobbes had cried out when dying " My God , My God , why hast thou forsaken me ? " what would the clergymen of this city then have said ? 66 To resort to these foolish ...
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... Suppose the Supreme Being then should say : Were you ever baptized ? " and the man should reply : " I am sorry to say I never was . " Could a solitary person of sense hear that question asked , by the Supreme Being , without laughing ...
... Suppose the Supreme Being then should say : Were you ever baptized ? " and the man should reply : " I am sorry to say I never was . " Could a solitary person of sense hear that question asked , by the Supreme Being , without laughing ...
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... Suppose I could take a doctrine is infamously false . a stone and in one moment change it into a sentient , hoping , loving human being , would I have the right to torture it ? Would I have the right to give it pain ? No one but a fiend ...
... Suppose I could take a doctrine is infamously false . a stone and in one moment change it into a sentient , hoping , loving human being , would I have the right to torture it ? Would I have the right to give it pain ? No one but a fiend ...
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... suppose must have been in the report . I am made to say in the report of his sermon , " There is no sacred place in all the universe . " What I did say was , " There is no sacred place in all the universe of thought . There is nothing ...
... suppose must have been in the report . I am made to say in the report of his sermon , " There is no sacred place in all the universe . " What I did say was , " There is no sacred place in all the universe of thought . There is nothing ...
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... , was in the Inquisition of Spain . And yet we are now told by a religious paper , that France is not capable of self - government . I suppose it was capable of self - government under the old regime , at the MY REVIEWERS REVIEWED . 49.
... , was in the Inquisition of Spain . And yet we are now told by a religious paper , that France is not capable of self - government . I suppose it was capable of self - government under the old regime , at the MY REVIEWERS REVIEWED . 49.
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Page 41 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Page 45 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
Page 46 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness ; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions, and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness : from such withdraw thyself.
Page 266 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughterin-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 75 - Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 70 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 65 - But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Page 64 - And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams : therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Page 86 - Let us go and serve other gods which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth.
Page 66 - All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.