The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... force none to worship at his altars , and commands the heathens not to injure nor affront any of them , he commands them like- wise to live in peace with the heathens and with one another , and threatens to punish them , not for their ...
... force none to worship at his altars , and commands the heathens not to injure nor affront any of them , he commands them like- wise to live in peace with the heathens and with one another , and threatens to punish them , not for their ...
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... force and violence . He was not yet acquainted with the pertinacious spirit of the clergy , who never gave up a point which ambition or interest , en- thusiasm or humour has made any of them ad- vance ; though the peace of mankind , and ...
... force and violence . He was not yet acquainted with the pertinacious spirit of the clergy , who never gave up a point which ambition or interest , en- thusiasm or humour has made any of them ad- vance ; though the peace of mankind , and ...
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... force , the prerogatives of the church of Rome . After this , he writ " De singulari Primatu Petri , " to flatter the same pope . Vid . the last edition of the Alliance between Church and State Demonstrated . clergy , clergy . The ...
... force , the prerogatives of the church of Rome . After this , he writ " De singulari Primatu Petri , " to flatter the same pope . Vid . the last edition of the Alliance between Church and State Demonstrated . clergy , clergy . The ...
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... force a uniform submission to some decision or other ; and their authority was just sufficient for that purpose , in vulgar prejudice . Thus the allied powers , the hierarchy and the monarchy , have acted ever since . These farces were ...
... force a uniform submission to some decision or other ; and their authority was just sufficient for that purpose , in vulgar prejudice . Thus the allied powers , the hierarchy and the monarchy , have acted ever since . These farces were ...
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... force to make him king , as St. John tells us , that they who had seen his miracles were ready to do * ; or they would have looked on him , from Reasonab . of Christian . the • the first , as an impostor , since he 152 ESSAY THE FOURTH :
... force to make him king , as St. John tells us , that they who had seen his miracles were ready to do * ; or they would have looked on him , from Reasonab . of Christian . the • the first , as an impostor , since he 152 ESSAY THE FOURTH :
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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...