Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit: To which is Added, the History of the Philosophical Doctrine Concerning the Origin of the Soul, and the Nature of Matter; with Its Influence on Christianity, Especially with Respect to the Doctrine of the Pre-existence of Christ. By Joseph Priestley, ... |
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Page viii
... Chrift , you juftly confider as respectively effential to na- tural and revealed religion ; and con- fequently entertain a reasonable fuf- picion and dread of any opinions that infringe upon them ; and the more venerable those opinions ...
... Chrift , you juftly confider as respectively effential to na- tural and revealed religion ; and con- fequently entertain a reasonable fuf- picion and dread of any opinions that infringe upon them ; and the more venerable those opinions ...
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... Chrift in particular , which was derived from it , I had once thought of referv- ing for my Hiftorical View of the Corruptions of Christianity , which will be the last part of my Inftitutes of Natural and Revealed Religion . But as it ...
... Chrift in particular , which was derived from it , I had once thought of referv- ing for my Hiftorical View of the Corruptions of Christianity , which will be the last part of my Inftitutes of Natural and Revealed Religion . But as it ...
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... Chrift and the apostles ; and that what was built with wood , and other bafe materials , would be confumed by fire , while the reft would stand . Our Saviour , who revealed the future ftate of his church to the apostle John , is ...
... Chrift and the apostles ; and that what was built with wood , and other bafe materials , would be confumed by fire , while the reft would stand . Our Saviour , who revealed the future ftate of his church to the apostle John , is ...
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... Chrift . 66 Mr. Baxter , in his Efay on the Soul , p 304 , fays , that " after the refurrection , the re - union of fouls to their bodies may be no punishment , or diminution of the hap- piness designed them , if we conceive it to " be ...
... Chrift . 66 Mr. Baxter , in his Efay on the Soul , p 304 , fays , that " after the refurrection , the re - union of fouls to their bodies may be no punishment , or diminution of the hap- piness designed them , if we conceive it to " be ...
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... Chrift every thing that offends . Then only will be the great barvest , when the wheat ( to use the language of our Saviour ) will be gathered into the garner , and the chaff will be burned with unquenchable fire . The immaterial fyftem ...
... Chrift every thing that offends . Then only will be the great barvest , when the wheat ( to use the language of our Saviour ) will be gathered into the garner , and the chaff will be burned with unquenchable fire . The immaterial fyftem ...
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Page 142 - God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise, and his brightness was as the light. He had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Page 144 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 141 - And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them : I am the LORD their God.
Page 139 - And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount : and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount ; and Moses went up.
Page 136 - And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of « cloud, to lead them the way ; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light ; to go by day and night : He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Page 126 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 144 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 139 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 284 - ... forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving : for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Page 139 - And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.