The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author, Volume 3 |
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... συνέχειν . Διόπερ οι παλαιοί δοκεσί μοι τὰς περὶ θεῶν ευνοίας , καὶ τὰς περὶ τῶν ἐν ᾅδε διαλήψεις ἐκ εἰκῇ καὶ ὡς ἔτυχεν εἰς Β 3 વે Polybius says literally , There are two ways by which Sect . 1. ] OF MOSES DEMONSTRATED . 5.
... συνέχειν . Διόπερ οι παλαιοί δοκεσί μοι τὰς περὶ θεῶν ευνοίας , καὶ τὰς περὶ τῶν ἐν ᾅδε διαλήψεις ἐκ εἰκῇ καὶ ὡς ἔτυχεν εἰς Β 3 વે Polybius says literally , There are two ways by which Sect . 1. ] OF MOSES DEMONSTRATED . 5.
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... says literally , There are two ways by which a State is brought to dissolution , from without and from within : that ... say , as appears by what he imme- diately subjoins , where he shews how the power of the Great , when degenerated ...
... says literally , There are two ways by which a State is brought to dissolution , from without and from within : that ... say , as appears by what he imme- diately subjoins , where he shews how the power of the Great , when degenerated ...
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... says he would not , I ask , why then hath he publicly ridiculed it ? Or was it * Characteristics , vol . iii . p . 177. edit . 3 . indeed indeed his intention to make all his fellow - citizens Sect . 1. ] OF MOSES DEMONSTRATED . 9.
... says he would not , I ask , why then hath he publicly ridiculed it ? Or was it * Characteristics , vol . iii . p . 177. edit . 3 . indeed indeed his intention to make all his fellow - citizens Sect . 1. ] OF MOSES DEMONSTRATED . 9.
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... says plainly , that there are many TRUTHS which it is not EXPEDIENT the vulgar " should know ; and many FALSEHOODS which yet " it is useful for the people to receive as truths † . " Upon which the Father remarks , " Here you have " the ...
... says plainly , that there are many TRUTHS which it is not EXPEDIENT the vulgar " should know ; and many FALSEHOODS which yet " it is useful for the people to receive as truths † . " Upon which the Father remarks , " Here you have " the ...
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... says , constantly a soul , which serves to animate and " inform their bodies : as for stones , wood , and " what we commonly call the inanimate parts of " the creation ; all these , he says , are quite destitute " of soul . And yet in ...
... says , constantly a soul , which serves to animate and " inform their bodies : as for stones , wood , and " what we commonly call the inanimate parts of " the creation ; all these , he says , are quite destitute " of soul . And yet in ...
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Page 198 - But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
Page 323 - But is there no theology involved in teaching love to God \ No theology in the belief that God is, and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him...
Page 275 - God, and could not out of the good things that are seen, know him that is : neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster ; but deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.
Page 114 - Qui autem requirunt quid quaque de re ipsi sentiamus, curiosius id faciunt quam necesse est; non enim tarn auctoritatis in disputando quam rationis momenta quaerenda sunt. Quin etiam obest plerumque iis qui discere volunt auctoritas eorum qui se docere profitentur; desinunt enim suum iudicium adhibere, id habent ratum quod ab eo quern probant iudicatum vident.
Page 244 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 311 - That the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is not to be found in, nor did make part of, the Mosaic dispensation.
Page 323 - Yet this did not hinder their having recourse to a. future state to secure the foundation of Religion, which, St. Paul tells us, is the belief that God is, and that he is the Rewarder of them that seek him. The matter now begins to pinch : and the Doctor must be dumb, or confess that the only possible reason one can assign why the Jews had not recourse to the same expedient for securing the foundation of Religion, which the Gentiles had recourse to, was because they felt the performance as well as...
Page 81 - O genus attonitum gelidae formidine mortis ! quid Styga, quid tenebras et nomina vana timetis, materiem vatum, falsique pericula mundi? 1,55 corpora sive rogus flamma, seu tabe vetustas abstulerit, mala posse pati non ulla putetis. morte carent animae, semperque, priore relicta sede, novis domibus vivunt habitantque receptae.
Page 8 - ... and the interests of morality at the same time. How did they answer this ? They did not venture to vindicate a state of future rewards and punishments either by urging the doctrines of any philosophical sect, or by appealing to the judgment of their country. Their only resource was the replication, that " the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments was delivered to them from their ancestors.
Page 344 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel . . . not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers...