A succinct account of all the religions, and various sects in religion, that have prevailed in the world1791 |
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Strona xxi
... seems to be among the firft duties we owe to the author of our Being , to form the least imperfect , fince we cannot form perfect , conceptions of his character and administration for fuch conceptions will render our religion rational ...
... seems to be among the firft duties we owe to the author of our Being , to form the least imperfect , fince we cannot form perfect , conceptions of his character and administration for fuch conceptions will render our religion rational ...
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... seem to have done pretty early , though the time cannot be fixed * . The idols of the Moabites taken notice of in Scripture , are Chemofh and Baal - peor † , fometimes fimply Peor ‡ , or as the feptua- gint write the name Phegor , but ...
... seem to have done pretty early , though the time cannot be fixed * . The idols of the Moabites taken notice of in Scripture , are Chemofh and Baal - peor † , fometimes fimply Peor ‡ , or as the feptua- gint write the name Phegor , but ...
Strona 13
... seem to have been principally addicted to husbandry alfo . The religion of the Ammonites , as we have already observed concerning that of the Moabites , was originally as pure as it could flow from fo clear a stream , as the inftruc ...
... seem to have been principally addicted to husbandry alfo . The religion of the Ammonites , as we have already observed concerning that of the Moabites , was originally as pure as it could flow from fo clear a stream , as the inftruc ...
Strona 31
... seems as if he had been used to converfe with God . In after times they erred into endless fuperftitions and different kinds of idolatry : each of the prin- cipal or five cities , feeming to have an idol of its own . Marna , Marnas , or ...
... seems as if he had been used to converfe with God . In after times they erred into endless fuperftitions and different kinds of idolatry : each of the prin- cipal or five cities , feeming to have an idol of its own . Marna , Marnas , or ...
Strona 32
... seems , paid a very constant attend- ance on him . Next to Dagon was Baal- zebub , the god of Ekron . In the text of the New Teftament he is Beelzebub , and the prince of devils . His name is rendered lord of flics , which by fome is ...
... seems , paid a very constant attend- ance on him . Next to Dagon was Baal- zebub , the god of Ekron . In the text of the New Teftament he is Beelzebub , and the prince of devils . His name is rendered lord of flics , which by fome is ...
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Strona 71 - Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent as if he were present.
Strona 431 - Which laying by Reason would set up Revelation without it. Whereby in effect it takes away both Reason and Revelation, and substitutes in the room of it, the ungrounded Fancies of a Man's own Brain, and assumes them for a Foundation both of Opinion and Conduct.
Strona 27 - But thus shall ye deal with them ; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
Strona 439 - The second sort of Deists are those who believe not only the being, but also the providence, of God, with respect to the natural world, but who, not allowing any difference between moral good and evil, deny that God takes any notice of the morally good or evil actions of men; these things depending, as they imagine, on the arbitrary constitution of human laws.
Strona 451 - Teftament revelation; for Our Saviour came not to deftroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, and carry the fcheme of religion, there laid down, to a ftill higher degree of excellency.
Strona xix - We know that the highest conceptions we are able to form of them are still beneath his real perfections ; but his power and dominion over us, and our duty towards him, are manifest. " Though God has given us no innate ideas of himself,
Strona 318 - God to the sun; the illuminated virtue or quality of which was the Word, and its warming virtue the Holy Spirit. The Word, they taught, was darted, like a divine ray, to accomplish the work of redemption ; and that, being reascended to heaven, the influences of the Father were communicated after a like manner to the apostles.
Strona 397 - That the law qualified men for the kingdom of heaven, and was founded upon equal promises with the Gospel. — 5. That the general resurrection of the dead does not follow in virtue of our Saviour's resurrection. — 6. That the grace of God is given according to our merits. — 7. That this grace is not granted for the performance of every moral act; the liberty of the will and information in points of duty being sufficient.
Strona 228 - ... their hufbands all the dangers and fatigues of war, but at length, to follow them by a voluntary death into the other world; it can hardly be attributed to any thing elfe but a ftrong perfuafion of their being admitted to live with them in that place of blifs.