Reflections on the Four Principal Religions which Have Obtained in the World: Paganism, Mohammedism, Judaism, and Christianity; Also on the Church of England, and Other Denominations of Protestants: and on Evangelical Religion, Volume 1Richardson, 1824 - Christianity and other religions |
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... Rites and Worship of Paganism have been , and are , amazingly different ; but its Spirit has ever been the Keeping the First Cause out of sight , it has con- sisted of the worship of local , tutelary Deities ; and an same ...
... Rites and Worship of Paganism have been , and are , amazingly different ; but its Spirit has ever been the Keeping the First Cause out of sight , it has con- sisted of the worship of local , tutelary Deities ; and an same ...
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... Rites has ever formed an essential part of it . Mohammedism pretends to come from the First Cause , and , consequently , stands opposed to Paganism ; but whoever is acquainted with the licentious and ferocious character of its prophet ...
... Rites has ever formed an essential part of it . Mohammedism pretends to come from the First Cause , and , consequently , stands opposed to Paganism ; but whoever is acquainted with the licentious and ferocious character of its prophet ...
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... rites and worship of their country .; and yet they employed the whole weight of their authority , as well as their example to support them . The atrocious crimes which have , in every Pagan country , been openly and avowedly committed ...
... rites and worship of their country .; and yet they employed the whole weight of their authority , as well as their example to support them . The atrocious crimes which have , in every Pagan country , been openly and avowedly committed ...
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... rites . On Egypt was the cradle of superstition , and it was there that brute - worship was invented , and carried to a point of absurdity , from which natural religion must retire in disgust . The Egyptians worshipped apes , dogs ...
... rites . On Egypt was the cradle of superstition , and it was there that brute - worship was invented , and carried to a point of absurdity , from which natural religion must retire in disgust . The Egyptians worshipped apes , dogs ...
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... rites performed in honour of Venus , in Cyprus , and at Aphac on Mount , Lebanus , consisted in lewdness of the ... rite of idolatry , that in OF PAGANISM . 23.
... rites performed in honour of Venus , in Cyprus , and at Aphac on Mount , Lebanus , consisted in lewdness of the ... rite of idolatry , that in OF PAGANISM . 23.
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Page 144 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Page 333 - I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house, testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 362 - And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 179 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 239 - Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth : for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak : and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me : for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.
Page 79 - Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 235 - I am Alpha and. Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Page 230 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Page 254 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...
Page 331 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.