Views of Christian Truth, Piety, and Morality: Selected from the Writings of Dr. Priestley : with a Memoir of His Life |
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... Unbelievers . 106 · - 107 110 · . 113 120 - 126 130 Duty of Christians respecting the present prevalence of Infidelity 141 Superior Value of Revealed Religion . Divine Mission of Moses . The Character of Christ . The Spread of ...
... Unbelievers . 106 · - 107 110 · . 113 120 - 126 130 Duty of Christians respecting the present prevalence of Infidelity 141 Superior Value of Revealed Religion . Divine Mission of Moses . The Character of Christ . The Spread of ...
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... unbelievers , at home and abroad , I thought I should be able to combat their prejudices with some advantage , and with this view I wrote , while I was with Lord Shelburne , the first part of my " Let- ters to a Philosophical Unbeliever ...
... unbelievers , at home and abroad , I thought I should be able to combat their prejudices with some advantage , and with this view I wrote , while I was with Lord Shelburne , the first part of my " Let- ters to a Philosophical Unbeliever ...
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... unbelievers , and even atheists . I had a long conversation with one , an ingenious man , and good writer , who maintained seriously that man might arise , without any Maker , from the earth . They may despise me ; I am sure I despise ...
... unbelievers , and even atheists . I had a long conversation with one , an ingenious man , and good writer , who maintained seriously that man might arise , without any Maker , from the earth . They may despise me ; I am sure I despise ...
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... Unbelievers , I am confident , do not read it , except with a predisposition to cavil . " In another letter , immediately on his arrival , he writes thus . " Our society in the cabin was agreeable enough , though the majority were ...
... Unbelievers , I am confident , do not read it , except with a predisposition to cavil . " In another letter , immediately on his arrival , he writes thus . " Our society in the cabin was agreeable enough , though the majority were ...
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... unbelievers , but for want of information . This is the case with Mr. Lyon , a most excellent man , who is now reading my " Sermons on the Evidences of Revelation , " and , I hope , to good purpose . He , like thousands of others , told ...
... unbelievers , but for want of information . This is the case with Mr. Lyon , a most excellent man , who is now reading my " Sermons on the Evidences of Revelation , " and , I hope , to good purpose . He , like thousands of others , told ...
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Page 35 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith : I will return into my house from whence I came out ; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 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 23 - 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 165 - Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation!
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 174 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Page 17 - 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.
Page lxxiv - But let not his attainments be depreciated, because they are numerous almost without a parallel. Let not his talents be ridiculed, because they are superlatively great. Let not his morals be villified, because they are correct without austerity, and exemplary without ostentation...