The infidel's own book, a statement of some of the absurdities resulting from the rejection of ChristianityHamilton, Adams, 1834 - 200 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... instruction , must be a hinder- ance to the progress of truth , since it at once blinds the eyes and indurates the heart . If there- fore , in his attempt at proselytism , the infidel sincerely wishes to succeed , where success would be ...
... instruction , must be a hinder- ance to the progress of truth , since it at once blinds the eyes and indurates the heart . If there- fore , in his attempt at proselytism , the infidel sincerely wishes to succeed , where success would be ...
Pagina 43
... instruct or govern . In other words , to be correct in opinion , is the sure way to error and misery of life ; while to be wrong in opinion , is certainly productive of rectitude and happiness . Is it then too much to say , that ...
... instruct or govern . In other words , to be correct in opinion , is the sure way to error and misery of life ; while to be wrong in opinion , is certainly productive of rectitude and happiness . Is it then too much to say , that ...
Pagina 61
... instruct mankind , and that he has the power to invert the order of nature in proof of the divinity of his commission , it will be proper for us to discredit his claims , even should we see him actually effect an inversion of the laws ...
... instruct mankind , and that he has the power to invert the order of nature in proof of the divinity of his commission , it will be proper for us to discredit his claims , even should we see him actually effect an inversion of the laws ...
Pagina 81
... instruct the Jewish nation or the world , even the long ex- pected Messiah ; and since on them peculiarly devolved the honour of welcoming his advent , attending his ministry , and celebrating his tri- umphs , their double sin of ...
... instruct the Jewish nation or the world , even the long ex- pected Messiah ; and since on them peculiarly devolved the honour of welcoming his advent , attending his ministry , and celebrating his tri- umphs , their double sin of ...
Pagina 128
... instruct them to attempt to impose , only , or at least in the first place , on the credulous and uneducated , and such in general as were least skilled in the inves- tigation of truth . They would shun the walks of science and ...
... instruct them to attempt to impose , only , or at least in the first place , on the credulous and uneducated , and such in general as were least skilled in the inves- tigation of truth . They would shun the walks of science and ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 152 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Pagina 151 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; and labour, working with our own hands : being reviled, we bless : being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed, we entreat : we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Pagina 200 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Pagina 194 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Pagina 200 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Pagina 200 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Pagina 151 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one." " Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice J suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep.
Pagina 61 - As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, "so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, 'Am not I in sport?
Pagina 60 - Though I throw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet, in other things, I do not think so differently from the rest of mankind as you may imagine.