The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... Israelites , on principles much the same . This claim too was neither publickly asserted by himself , nor by his contemporaries , nor by his successors , nor at any time by the church in form ; the reason of which was , no doubt , that ...
... Israelites , on principles much the same . This claim too was neither publickly asserted by himself , nor by his contemporaries , nor by his successors , nor at any time by the church in form ; the reason of which was , no doubt , that ...
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... Israelites were , to the worship of many gods , and so little able to conceive the equality of three to one , and of one to three , a trinity in a unity , and a unity in a trinity ; to a people to whom he would not teach the doctrine of ...
... Israelites were , to the worship of many gods , and so little able to conceive the equality of three to one , and of one to three , a trinity in a unity , and a unity in a trinity ; to a people to whom he would not teach the doctrine of ...
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... Israelites over the Idumeans , the families sepa- rated likewise , and new families were formed by the swarms that issued from ancient hives . The increase of families was not only great in those prolifick ages , as we may observe by ...
... Israelites over the Idumeans , the families sepa- rated likewise , and new families were formed by the swarms that issued from ancient hives . The increase of families was not only great in those prolifick ages , as we may observe by ...
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... Israelites submit- ted to their bondage so long , and made no at- tempt to establish an independent kingdom or commonwealth in Egypt ; yet will it be hard to conceive , how they could find it so difficult to with- draw themselves out of ...
... Israelites submit- ted to their bondage so long , and made no at- tempt to establish an independent kingdom or commonwealth in Egypt ; yet will it be hard to conceive , how they could find it so difficult to with- draw themselves out of ...
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... Israelites were not guilty of sedition or rebellion . They bore their stripes patiently . But as their stripes made them willing to leave the country , an epi- demical infectious distemper in the Lower Egypt might make Pharaoh desirous ...
... Israelites were not guilty of sedition or rebellion . They bore their stripes patiently . But as their stripes made them willing to leave the country , an epi- demical infectious distemper in the Lower Egypt might make Pharaoh desirous ...
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Page 312 - In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 159 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 163 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Page 256 - Father, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 497 - And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
Page 510 - The gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity.
Page 331 - ... another, and the same consequent fitness or unfitness of the application of different things or different relations one to another, with regard to which, the will of God always and necessarily does determine itself, to choose to act only what is agreeable to justice, equity, goodness and truth...
Page 64 - ... the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments...
Page 310 - Sed justifias primum munus est, ut ne cui quis noceat, nisi lacessitus injuria; deinde, ut communibus utatur pro communibus, privatis ut suis.
Page 401 - ... laws, but a general, and in some sort an habitual, knowledge of the manner in which God is pleased to exercise his supreme power in this system, beyond which we have no concern. We do not see the divine painter, if I may employ so low a comparison on so high a subject; but we grow...