Reason, the Only Oracle of Man, Or, A Compendious System of Natural ReligionG.W. & A.J. Matsell, 1836 - 180 pages |
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... writings ; mine will therefore determine the matter ; for I have not in the least disguised my sentiments , but have written freely without any conscious knowledge of prejudice for , or against any man , sectary or party whatever ; but ...
... writings ; mine will therefore determine the matter ; for I have not in the least disguised my sentiments , but have written freely without any conscious knowledge of prejudice for , or against any man , sectary or party whatever ; but ...
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... writings , through the vicissitudes of learning , and particularly from the corruptions of translations , of his as well as the writings of other ancient authors , besides , it must be acknowledged , that those ancient writers laboured ...
... writings , through the vicissitudes of learning , and particularly from the corruptions of translations , of his as well as the writings of other ancient authors , besides , it must be acknowledged , that those ancient writers laboured ...
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... writing its original is as ancient as the divine mind . For the true , primitive and supreme law , in no other than the unerring reason of the great Jupiter . And in another place he says , this law is founded in nature , it is ...
... writing its original is as ancient as the divine mind . For the true , primitive and supreme law , in no other than the unerring reason of the great Jupiter . And in another place he says , this law is founded in nature , it is ...
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... writing , or by some sort of external symbols which are the mediate ground of it , and we are liable to errors and mistakes in this natural and external way of correspondence ; but when we have the vanity to rely on dreams and visions ...
... writing , or by some sort of external symbols which are the mediate ground of it , and we are liable to errors and mistakes in this natural and external way of correspondence ; but when we have the vanity to rely on dreams and visions ...
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... writing , so as to correspond with us , or to reveal any thing to us , would run into the same sort of absurdity , which we have already confuted ; for it is the same as to suppose an effect without a suitable or proportionable cause ...
... writing , so as to correspond with us , or to reveal any thing to us , would run into the same sort of absurdity , which we have already confuted ; for it is the same as to suppose an effect without a suitable or proportionable cause ...
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Page 65 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Page 21 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Page 56 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Page 58 - And they came to the place which God had told him of ; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 76 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 55 - Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Page 56 - Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
Page 49 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us ? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 59 - So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Page 53 - And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.