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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... position that will secure rational religion . It is essential for all mankind to know , that religion must hold all peculiar faith in perfect abeyance , which proves at once the whole position of mono- theism , or rational religion ...
... position that will secure rational religion . It is essential for all mankind to know , that religion must hold all peculiar faith in perfect abeyance , which proves at once the whole position of mono- theism , or rational religion ...
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... position without principle that will uphold us for ever . Rational religion legislates for the whole world , and yields to mind its rationality , and to rationality all that are in the elements of eternal happiness . Why do men differ ...
... position without principle that will uphold us for ever . Rational religion legislates for the whole world , and yields to mind its rationality , and to rationality all that are in the elements of eternal happiness . Why do men differ ...
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... position , and could not do it , I would renounce that profession , certainly , as disreputable . I consider that monotheism or religion of principles , is self - evident . What good does peculiar faith do , but deceive the world ...
... position , and could not do it , I would renounce that profession , certainly , as disreputable . I consider that monotheism or religion of principles , is self - evident . What good does peculiar faith do , but deceive the world ...
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... position . All such evils are referable to peculiar faiths , all of which are of man . Rational religion requires the full culture that implies the constant exalted exercise of conscience , the conservative of rational mind . The only ...
... position . All such evils are referable to peculiar faiths , all of which are of man . Rational religion requires the full culture that implies the constant exalted exercise of conscience , the conservative of rational mind . The only ...
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... position of morality and religion , but not out of any peculiar bible , for its writers did not know them at all . The very idea of peculiarity kills all . All owe a gentlemanly deportment to civilized society , and are under the ...
... position of morality and religion , but not out of any peculiar bible , for its writers did not know them at all . The very idea of peculiarity kills all . All owe a gentlemanly deportment to civilized society , and are under the ...
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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.