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... bodies , which are utterly void of understanding , and therefore cannot direct their own movements . How came they to be placed , and continue , at such commodious distances from each other ? whereas , in 14 ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD .
... bodies , which are utterly void of understanding , and therefore cannot direct their own movements . How came they to be placed , and continue , at such commodious distances from each other ? whereas , in 14 ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD .
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... bodies perform their motions with as much regularity and exact order , as if they had fully considered , and per- fectly understood , the reasons of these motions . But it is not by a reason of their own that they thus act , because ...
... bodies perform their motions with as much regularity and exact order , as if they had fully considered , and per- fectly understood , the reasons of these motions . But it is not by a reason of their own that they thus act , because ...
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... body , since , according to their own prin- ciples , death puts an end to all their miseries , and leaves them in the same condition they were in before they had any being ! Cotta as- sures us , that no school boy was ever more afraid ...
... body , since , according to their own prin- ciples , death puts an end to all their miseries , and leaves them in the same condition they were in before they had any being ! Cotta as- sures us , that no school boy was ever more afraid ...
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... body , and only the grand agent employed to bring the matter of fire dif- fused through all bodies , into action : An object thus illustrious and useful in the regular and wise economy of nature , observes an elegant and pious author ...
... body , and only the grand agent employed to bring the matter of fire dif- fused through all bodies , into action : An object thus illustrious and useful in the regular and wise economy of nature , observes an elegant and pious author ...
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... bodies or to our minds , or to both , or in what degree in either , is at least not easily comprehended . But an idea of this lunar agen- cy has so generally prevailed , that even Milton , the most philosophical of all our poets , talks ...
... bodies or to our minds , or to both , or in what degree in either , is at least not easily comprehended . But an idea of this lunar agen- cy has so generally prevailed , that even Milton , the most philosophical of all our poets , talks ...
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Page 168 - But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping; and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
Page 207 - But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Page 163 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes, and they shall conde'mn him to death, 19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Page 199 - There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews : The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God ; for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Page 114 - Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience : Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 204 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon. they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, at the day of judgment, than for you.
Page 165 - And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
Page 162 - For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption : But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
Page 113 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness : all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Page 198 - For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at, any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.