The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... distinct from the other subjects of the empire , and not only out of the protection of the laws , but obnoxious to them ; and which became unnecessary and dangerous when christianity had a legal establishment , and when If we seek that ...
... distinct from the other subjects of the empire , and not only out of the protection of the laws , but obnoxious to them ; and which became unnecessary and dangerous when christianity had a legal establishment , and when If we seek that ...
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... distinct from the civil ; that they should be in- dependent of one another , and both dependent on him ; and he did not see that this was a dis- tinction without any real difference . He does not seem to have enough considered two ...
... distinct from the civil ; that they should be in- dependent of one another , and both dependent on him ; and he did not see that this was a dis- tinction without any real difference . He does not seem to have enough considered two ...
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... had ever imagined three gods essentially one , and one god essentially three . Whenever they spoke of three hypostases , they all supposed them distinct and and subordinate . Rapin * that Plotinus did not . 68 ESSAY THE FOURTH :
... had ever imagined three gods essentially one , and one god essentially three . Whenever they spoke of three hypostases , they all supposed them distinct and and subordinate . Rapin * that Plotinus did not . 68 ESSAY THE FOURTH :
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... distinct subordinate subsisten- cies , and the soul the lowest of them . The rc- lation , I say , was not very remote either way ; and these philosophers might think their hypothe- sis the more decent for not making this relation closer ...
... distinct subordinate subsisten- cies , and the soul the lowest of them . The rc- lation , I say , was not very remote either way ; and these philosophers might think their hypothe- sis the more decent for not making this relation closer ...
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... distinct spiritual to his corporeal sub- stance , and to assume him to be a compound of both . A great variety of hypotheses was built on this one ; but immortality was common to them all . In all of them , man was allied to God by some ...
... distinct spiritual to his corporeal sub- stance , and to assume him to be a compound of both . A great variety of hypotheses was built on this one ; but immortality was common to them all . In all of them , man was allied to God by some ...
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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...