Rational Religion and Morals: Presenting Analysis of the Functions of Mind, Under the Operations and Directions of Reason: The First, Eliciting the Necessary, Rational, and Only Religion, Monotheism .. the Second, the Obvious Duties and Precautions of Society |
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... ancient records cannot give as adequate to the civilization of man and justice to Deity . All the ancient systems of peculiar faith must be universally rejected , as inadequate to the morale needed at the present day . Then nations will ...
... ancient records cannot give as adequate to the civilization of man and justice to Deity . All the ancient systems of peculiar faith must be universally rejected , as inadequate to the morale needed at the present day . Then nations will ...
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... ancients could not appreciate God , that mind could not , is foolish in the extreme . The ancients could not begin to appreciate the system of systems — the universe ; the moderns have only begun to do so . Mind is on the progress of ...
... ancients could not appreciate God , that mind could not , is foolish in the extreme . The ancients could not begin to appreciate the system of systems — the universe ; the moderns have only begun to do so . Mind is on the progress of ...
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... ancient and modern . There can be no worship of God but true adoration on principles , that reflect the excellence of actions . Special providence is not peculiar , but a universal providence ; not of peculiar , but a rational faith ...
... ancient and modern . There can be no worship of God but true adoration on principles , that reflect the excellence of actions . Special providence is not peculiar , but a universal providence ; not of peculiar , but a rational faith ...
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... ancient vassalage of faith was by misfortune and ignorance arising from the brutal and barbarous state of the times , but now it is more degrading from the people's own fault . If shame attached to the ancients for their foolish ...
... ancient vassalage of faith was by misfortune and ignorance arising from the brutal and barbarous state of the times , but now it is more degrading from the people's own fault . If shame attached to the ancients for their foolish ...
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... ancient oracle ever had less pretension . Both have no truth . It would really be some alleviation if the present professors of faith could enact like the ancient oracle - mongers , but all this is gone . There is no proof of the least ...
... ancient oracle ever had less pretension . Both have no truth . It would really be some alleviation if the present professors of faith could enact like the ancient oracle - mongers , but all this is gone . There is no proof of the least ...
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Page 472 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 285 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 480 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 486 - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
Page 489 - And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 477 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 500 - Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more...
Page 285 - Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
Page 488 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Page 488 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.