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... faith , and obliging us to obey whether we wish it or no ; and it is urged that a Divine Voice spoke in the first age , and difficulty and darkness rest upon all subsequent ones ; as if infallibility and per- sonal judgment were ...
... faith , and obliging us to obey whether we wish it or no ; and it is urged that a Divine Voice spoke in the first age , and difficulty and darkness rest upon all subsequent ones ; as if infallibility and per- sonal judgment were ...
Page 83
... faith interferes with our free - will and responsibility is , as before , to forget that there were infallible teachers in the first age , and heretics and schismatics in the ages subsequent . There may have been at once a supreme ...
... faith interferes with our free - will and responsibility is , as before , to forget that there were infallible teachers in the first age , and heretics and schismatics in the ages subsequent . There may have been at once a supreme ...
Page 85
... for the existence of a standing authority in matters of faith on the analogy of Nature , and from the fact of Christianity . Preservation is involved in the idea of creation . As the Creator SECT . II . ] 85 TO BE EXPECTED .
... for the existence of a standing authority in matters of faith on the analogy of Nature , and from the fact of Christianity . Preservation is involved in the idea of creation . As the Creator SECT . II . ] 85 TO BE EXPECTED .
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... faith or of morals , and that from ignorance , as sometimes happens to other doctors . Next , all Catholics agree in other two points , not , however , with heretics , but solely with each other : first , that the Pope with General ...
... faith or of morals , and that from ignorance , as sometimes happens to other doctors . Next , all Catholics agree in other two points , not , however , with heretics , but solely with each other : first , that the Pope with General ...
Page 88
... faith , is , that some authority there must be if there is a revelation given , and 4 Proph . Office [ Via Med . vol . i . p . 117 ] . other authority there is none but she . A revelation 88 AN INFALLIBLE DEVELOPING AUTHORITY [ CH . II .
... faith , is , that some authority there must be if there is a revelation given , and 4 Proph . Office [ Via Med . vol . i . p . 117 ] . other authority there is none but she . A revelation 88 AN INFALLIBLE DEVELOPING AUTHORITY [ CH . II .
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Page 357 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 419 - Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like ? They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced : we have mourned unto you, and ye have not wept.
Page 369 - And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul; So that from his body were brought unto the sick, handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Page 73 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
Page 69 - And they shall hearken to thy voice; and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, "The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us; and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may 6 chapter 3: 12 sacrifice to the Lord our God.
Page 72 - And as, it is owned, the whole scheme of Scripture is not yet understood, so, if it ever comes to be understood, before the restitution of all things,* and without miraculous interpositions, it must be in the same way as natural knowledge is come at, by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world.
Page 327 - I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it ; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end.
Page 422 - Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt...
Page 69 - And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold, a feast unto the LORD.
Page 261 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence : there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.