A View of Religions in Two Parts: Pt.I. Containing an Alphabetical Compendium of the Various Religious Denominations, which Have Appeared in the World, from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Present Day. Pt.II. Containing a Brief Account of the Different Schemes of Religion Now Embraced Among Mankind. The Whole Collected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern, Parts 1-2 |
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... faith and practice should be derived , with equal confidence of their different abettors , from one and the fame revelation from heaven : but while we have the lively oracles , we are not to adopt any of the numerous fchemes of re ...
... faith and practice should be derived , with equal confidence of their different abettors , from one and the fame revelation from heaven : but while we have the lively oracles , we are not to adopt any of the numerous fchemes of re ...
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... faith . The confequence was , that Pagan ideas and opinions were by degrees mixed with the pure and fimple doctrines of the gospel . The Oriental philofophy was popular in feveral na- tions , at the time of Chrift's appearance . Before ...
... faith . The confequence was , that Pagan ideas and opinions were by degrees mixed with the pure and fimple doctrines of the gospel . The Oriental philofophy was popular in feveral na- tions , at the time of Chrift's appearance . Before ...
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... faith without works was fufficient to falvation ; and that no fin , however grievous , would be imputed to the faithful . Aetius moreover affirmed , that what God had concealed from the apoftles , he had revealed to him . Broughton ...
... faith without works was fufficient to falvation ; and that no fin , however grievous , would be imputed to the faithful . Aetius moreover affirmed , that what God had concealed from the apoftles , he had revealed to him . Broughton ...
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... faith is no more than a man- ifeftation to us of what was done before we had a being . For it is thus expreffed , in Heb . xi . 1 , Now faith is the fubftance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not feen . We are juftified only ...
... faith is no more than a man- ifeftation to us of what was done before we had a being . For it is thus expreffed , in Heb . xi . 1 , Now faith is the fubftance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not feen . We are juftified only ...
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... faith the Lord , the iniquity of Ifracl fhall be fought for , and there fhall be none ; and the fins of Judah , and they shall not be found : for I will pardon them , whom I referve . VI . That God is not angry with the elect , nor doth ...
... faith the Lord , the iniquity of Ifracl fhall be fought for , and there fhall be none ; and the fins of Judah , and they shall not be found : for I will pardon them , whom I referve . VI . That God is not angry with the elect , nor doth ...
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Page 235 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts ; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
Page 295 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 450 - Such a society is no other than "a company of men having the form and seeking the power of Godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation.
Page 210 - Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Page 129 - God : it is not subject to the law of God, and is the only affection that can oppose it. It is the foundation of all spiritual blindness, and therefore the source of all the open idolatry in the heathen world, and false religion under the light of the Gospel ; all this is agreeable to that self-love which opposes God's true character.
Page 163 - The corporeal and mental faculties, inhering in the same substance, grow, ripen, and decay together ; and whenever the system is dissolved, it continues in a state of dissolution, till it shall please that Almighty Being who called it into existence to restore it to life again.
Page 192 - ... the health and vigour of the mind, was an emanation from God into the human soul, and comprehended in it the principles and elements of all truth, human and divine.
Page 318 - Koran, that God, in divers ages of the world, gave revelations of his will in writing to several prophets, the whole and every one of which it is absolutely necessary for a good Moslem to believe.
Page 227 - I have glorified thee, on the earth : I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, 0 Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Page 194 - ... birth of that life, which was lost in paradise. No son of Adam can be lost, only by turning away from the Saviour within him. The only religion, which can save us, must be that, which can raise the light, life, and spirit of God, in our souls. Nothing can enter into the vegetable kingdom, till it...