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Page 379
The witches were all burnt , banished , or panic - struck , and in a little while there
was not an ugly old woman to be found throughout New England , - which is
doubtless one reason why all the young womed 1 Vol . ill . p . 84 . there are so ...
The witches were all burnt , banished , or panic - struck , and in a little while there
was not an ugly old woman to be found throughout New England , - which is
doubtless one reason why all the young womed 1 Vol . ill . p . 84 . there are so ...
Page 387
To pretend that we can find out what religion is by mere unaided human reason ,
is about as wise as would be the declaration of the mountebank , : hat he could
light up the heavens of a dark night with a mere rushlight ! Such a pretension ...
To pretend that we can find out what religion is by mere unaided human reason ,
is about as wise as would be the declaration of the mountebank , : hat he could
light up the heavens of a dark night with a mere rushlight ! Such a pretension ...
Page 388
Those who adopt it begin at the wrong end of the argument , and reason
backwards . Instead of reasoning from high to low — from heaven to earth , they
reason from low to high — from earth to heaven . Instead of raising up the earth to
the ...
Those who adopt it begin at the wrong end of the argument , and reason
backwards . Instead of reasoning from high to low — from heaven to earth , they
reason from low to high — from earth to heaven . Instead of raising up the earth to
the ...
Page 389
Is there , then , no difference between rational liberty , trammeled only by the
fetters of sober reason and by the golden bonds of obedience to a divinely
constituted and clearly ascertained divine religion , and that licentiousness of
intellect ...
Is there , then , no difference between rational liberty , trammeled only by the
fetters of sober reason and by the golden bonds of obedience to a divinely
constituted and clearly ascertained divine religion , and that licentiousness of
intellect ...
Page 390
Sectarianism has been always cursed and blighted by the same evils which have
ruined philosophy ; and these evils have sprung from the same polluted fountain
of private judgment and individual reason , proudly raising itself up against the ...
Sectarianism has been always cursed and blighted by the same evils which have
ruined philosophy ; and these evils have sprung from the same polluted fountain
of private judgment and individual reason , proudly raising itself up against the ...
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Page 569 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
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Page 372 - ... it is therefore ordered, that the said Mr. Williams shall depart out of this jurisdiction within six weeks now next ensuing ; which if he neglect to perform, it shall be lawful for the governor and two of the magistrates to send him to some place out of this jurisdiction, not to return any more without license from the court.
Page 519 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
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Page 488 - Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain-head from which the pure and living waters of our Scottish Zion flow, the earthly source, the pattern, the Rome of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice, has fallen lower from her own original doctrine and practice than ever Rome fell.
Page 377 - ... dropt sometimes out of the air, before sufficient spectators, into the hands of the afflicted, while the spectres were urging them to subscribe their covenant with death. Moreover, poisons to the standersby wholly...
Page 376 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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| Title | Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Subjects, Volume 2 Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Subjects, Martin John Spalding |
| Author | Martin John Spalding |
| Publisher | J. Murphy Company, 1894 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2006 |
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