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 13
... remain in the nonage of Chris- tian faith , and still cheat our spirits with the phantasies of scriptural hope . We cannot deso- late our hearts : we will not sin against reason , conscience , and self - interest ; and as a reply to all ...
... remain in the nonage of Chris- tian faith , and still cheat our spirits with the phantasies of scriptural hope . We cannot deso- late our hearts : we will not sin against reason , conscience , and self - interest ; and as a reply to all ...
Pagina 14
... priests ' tales . It may descant on God's indul- gence to human passion , till we forget his purity and justice . But God is still just ; we are still sinners , and justice must ever remain in hostility against 14 THE INFIDEL'S OWN BOOK .
... priests ' tales . It may descant on God's indul- gence to human passion , till we forget his purity and justice . But God is still just ; we are still sinners , and justice must ever remain in hostility against 14 THE INFIDEL'S OWN BOOK .
Pagina 15
Richard Treffry. sinners , and justice must ever remain in hostility against sin . The facts are not altered by our want of discernment . The stupefaction of a wretch tot- tering to the gallows , is no recommendation of the crime which ...
Richard Treffry. sinners , and justice must ever remain in hostility against sin . The facts are not altered by our want of discernment . The stupefaction of a wretch tot- tering to the gallows , is no recommendation of the crime which ...
Pagina 102
... remain wholly uncultivated , with several others . Idolatry itself , the highest treason of the Mosaic law , does not necessarily induce national decay , since it is by no means incom- patible with those qualities , which according to ...
... remain wholly uncultivated , with several others . Idolatry itself , the highest treason of the Mosaic law , does not necessarily induce national decay , since it is by no means incom- patible with those qualities , which according to ...
Pagina 126
... remain- ing goodness , as to throw out the slightest hint of the real posture of affairs . Still further , no inconsiderable portion of those who made a profession of Christianity during the apostolic age , must have been let into the ...
... remain- ing goodness , as to throw out the slightest hint of the real posture of affairs . Still further , no inconsiderable portion of those who made a profession of Christianity during the apostolic age , must have been let into the ...
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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.