The Truth and Excellence of the Christian Religion Exhibited: In Two Parts. Part I. Containing Sketches of the Lives of Eminent Laymen, who Have Written in Defence of the Christian Religion. Part II. Containing Extracts from Their Writings |
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... arguments in favour of infidelity , from the high literary character of those who profess it . " For , befides the strong evidence for the christian religion , there is probably a balance in its favour , from the number of great men who ...
... arguments in favour of infidelity , from the high literary character of those who profess it . " For , befides the strong evidence for the christian religion , there is probably a balance in its favour , from the number of great men who ...
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... argument , and guard the peo- ple against receiving their tenets , than to fupprefs them by violence , or cut them off by the fword of the magiftracy . He wrote , " A Hiflory of Plymouth People and Colony , " beginning with the firft ...
... argument , and guard the peo- ple against receiving their tenets , than to fupprefs them by violence , or cut them off by the fword of the magiftracy . He wrote , " A Hiflory of Plymouth People and Colony , " beginning with the firft ...
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... arguments of Dr. Cox , a phyfician then eminent in London . After he had de- termined upon the medical profeffion , he retired to the university at Oxford , where he spent several years in in- tense application to ftudy . Nor was he ...
... arguments of Dr. Cox , a phyfician then eminent in London . After he had de- termined upon the medical profeffion , he retired to the university at Oxford , where he spent several years in in- tense application to ftudy . Nor was he ...
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... argument , that has not been equalled by any preceding writer . He laboured to elucidate the Sacred Scriptures ; to advance the interefts of Revelation and of virtue ; to loofen the bands of tyranny , to promote the cause of liber- ty ...
... argument , that has not been equalled by any preceding writer . He laboured to elucidate the Sacred Scriptures ; to advance the interefts of Revelation and of virtue ; to loofen the bands of tyranny , to promote the cause of liber- ty ...
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... arguing with greater vigour against God and religion , than he had ever done in his life before ; but like the great convert Paul , he found it hard to ftrive against fuperiour force , for his heart was at that time ftruck fo powerfully ...
... arguing with greater vigour against God and religion , than he had ever done in his life before ; but like the great convert Paul , he found it hard to ftrive against fuperiour force , for his heart was at that time ftruck fo powerfully ...
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Page 48 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 312 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 103 - Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it. Yet it is reasonable to believe that Addison's professions and practice were at no great variance, since, amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was passed, though his station made him conspicuous and his activity made him formidable, the character given him by his friends was never contradicted by his enemies : of...
Page 363 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 45 - ... esteem of posterity; of which he will not easily be deprived while learning shall have any reverence among men; for there is no science in which he does not discover some skill, and scarce any kind of knowledge, profane or sacred, abstruse, or elegant, which he does not appear to have cultivated with...
Page 67 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 105 - He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character " above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Page 21 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 316 - Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the gospel, which has brought life and immortality to light. The precepts of Epicurus, who teaches us to endure what the laws of the universe make necessary, may silence, but not content us.
Page 35 - ... his humanity, courtesy and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.