The Works of William Paley ... to which is Prefixed The Life of the Author, Volume 5Peter Brown, 1838 - 712 pages |
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... human solicitude affects not them in any manner whatever . It cannot be without its use to inquire into the causes of a levity of temper , which so effectually obstructs the admission of every religious influence , and which I should ...
... human solicitude affects not them in any manner whatever . It cannot be without its use to inquire into the causes of a levity of temper , which so effectually obstructs the admission of every religious influence , and which I should ...
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... human understanding ; secondly , the nature of those subjects concerning which religion treats , so remote from our senses , so different from our experience , so above and beyond the ordinary train and course of our ideas ; and then ...
... human understanding ; secondly , the nature of those subjects concerning which religion treats , so remote from our senses , so different from our experience , so above and beyond the ordinary train and course of our ideas ; and then ...
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... human persuasion . God in his mercy and by his providences , as well as by his Spirit , can touch and soften the heart of stone . And it is seldom , perhaps , that , without some strong and , it may be , sudden impressions of this kind ...
... human persuasion . God in his mercy and by his providences , as well as by his Spirit , can touch and soften the heart of stone . And it is seldom , perhaps , that , without some strong and , it may be , sudden impressions of this kind ...
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... human com- positions , and nothing more , are of a similar cast with the devotional writings of Scripture , and excellently calculated for their purpose . * We read of aged persons , who passed the greatest part of their time in acts of ...
... human com- positions , and nothing more , are of a similar cast with the devotional writings of Scripture , and excellently calculated for their purpose . * We read of aged persons , who passed the greatest part of their time in acts of ...
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... human and of Chris- tian life ; but it is one property of the devotional spirit , which we speak of , to give a particularity to our worship , though it be carried on in a congregation of fellow Chris- tians , and expressed in terms ...
... human and of Chris- tian life ; but it is one property of the devotional spirit , which we speak of , to give a particularity to our worship , though it be carried on in a congregation of fellow Chris- tians , and expressed in terms ...
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