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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... Truth in good faith avoid any longer its investigation , because corrupt dynasties have sought to alienate Mind's rights , and bury truth under the false pretences of conceited and presumptuous faith ? Faith rises the more exalted as Truth ...
... Truth in good faith avoid any longer its investigation , because corrupt dynasties have sought to alienate Mind's rights , and bury truth under the false pretences of conceited and presumptuous faith ? Faith rises the more exalted as Truth ...
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... truth ? The world has nothing to do with such peculiar faith or its bibles , but truth is needed as the strictest justice to the world to anticipate all such evils . I wish the smartest scholars to meet this question fairly and ...
... truth ? The world has nothing to do with such peculiar faith or its bibles , but truth is needed as the strictest justice to the world to anticipate all such evils . I wish the smartest scholars to meet this question fairly and ...
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... truth and reason , faith's masters , it has nothing . To have the right faith , mind must be faithful to truth and reason , and to have the best security for all such , it must have rational education . Religion is for just views . All ...
... truth and reason , faith's masters , it has nothing . To have the right faith , mind must be faithful to truth and reason , and to have the best security for all such , it must have rational education . Religion is for just views . All ...
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... truth are analogous . As a rational being , we address you in all this matter . Religion , and bibles of tradition with peculiar faith , are two different things . Religion proves itself , but bibles of tradition disprove themselves ...
... truth are analogous . As a rational being , we address you in all this matter . Religion , and bibles of tradition with peculiar faith , are two different things . Religion proves itself , but bibles of tradition disprove themselves ...
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... truth are the great corner stones . All mankind has by the gift of creation , innate principles of religion that pre ... truth only decides that it must be universal to belong to God , as all that is peculiar belongs to man . Many think ...
... truth are the great corner stones . All mankind has by the gift of creation , innate principles of religion that pre ... truth only decides that it must be universal to belong to God , as all that is peculiar belongs to man . Many think ...
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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.