Views of Christian Truth, Piety, and Morality: Selected from the Writings of Dr. Priestley : with a Memoir of His Life |
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... particular , the more reasons I think I see why he was to suffer ; at least I see the old ones in a stronger light and feel more of their force . Other studies , and other pursuits that to many others are very proper and useful , appear ...
... particular , the more reasons I think I see why he was to suffer ; at least I see the old ones in a stronger light and feel more of their force . Other studies , and other pursuits that to many others are very proper and useful , appear ...
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... particular ; and had some time before set forth his views in an Essay on Church Discipline . He now urged the subject on the attention of his congregation in a sermon , which was published at their request , and the suggestions of which ...
... particular ; and had some time before set forth his views in an Essay on Church Discipline . He now urged the subject on the attention of his congregation in a sermon , which was published at their request , and the suggestions of which ...
Page xxv
... particular opportunity was laid hold of for the purpose . Some days before this meeting , a few copies of a printed hand - bill of an inflammatory nature had been found in a public - house in the town , and of this , great use was made ...
... particular opportunity was laid hold of for the purpose . Some days before this meeting , a few copies of a printed hand - bill of an inflammatory nature had been found in a public - house in the town , and of this , great use was made ...
Page xxxi
... particular objects of study , and having collected them with great care , as opportunity served , in the course of many years . It had also been my custom to read almost every book with a pencil in my hand , marking the passages that I ...
... particular objects of study , and having collected them with great care , as opportunity served , in the course of many years . It had also been my custom to read almost every book with a pencil in my hand , marking the passages that I ...
Page xxxiv
... particular influence , were full of the grossest abuse of the Dissenters , and especially of myself , and such narratives of the proceedings were published as cannot be accounted for from mistake or misapprehension , but must have been ...
... particular influence , were full of the grossest abuse of the Dissenters , and especially of myself , and such narratives of the proceedings were published as cannot be accounted for from mistake or misapprehension , but must have been ...
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Page lxxx - 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 20 - 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 33 - 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 163 - 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 21 - And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven.
Page 163 - 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 21 - 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 33 - 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 172 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Page 15 - The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind ; and our neighbour as ourselves.