The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... persons in the christian church , the exercise of it devolved of course on the bishops . A constant exercise gave the pretence , and settled the opinion of a sole right in them , who could have none in- dependently on the emperors ...
... persons in the christian church , the exercise of it devolved of course on the bishops . A constant exercise gave the pretence , and settled the opinion of a sole right in them , who could have none in- dependently on the emperors ...
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... name and by the autho- rity of Constantine . This edict gave an intire liberty of conscience . No person was to be any longer longer restrained from embracing christianity , but every one was AUTHORITY IN MATTERS OF RELIGION . 27.
... name and by the autho- rity of Constantine . This edict gave an intire liberty of conscience . No person was to be any longer longer restrained from embracing christianity , but every one was AUTHORITY IN MATTERS OF RELIGION . 27.
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... persons should fall out , call names , and excommunicate one another . But when the empire became christian , these divisions became fatal to the publick tran- quillity and welfare . Constantine had some experience of this in his own ...
... persons should fall out , call names , and excommunicate one another . But when the empire became christian , these divisions became fatal to the publick tran- quillity and welfare . Constantine had some experience of this in his own ...
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... persons , by the regard he showed them , and by the honours he affected to do them . He added to their power and authority , by the wealth , the privileges , and immunities he bestowed upon them , and by the laws he made in their fa ...
... persons , by the regard he showed them , and by the honours he affected to do them . He added to their power and authority , by the wealth , the privileges , and immunities he bestowed upon them , and by the laws he made in their fa ...
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... wherever , they durst . History is full of them . They were exercised at Rome sometimes , as well as at Alex- andria , and wherever christianity prevailed . world world by persons commissioned by him , as well as 36 ESSAY THE FOURTH :
... wherever , they durst . History is full of them . They were exercised at Rome sometimes , as well as at Alex- andria , and wherever christianity prevailed . world world by persons commissioned by him , as well as 36 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...