A Review of the Policy and Peculiar Doctrines of the Modern Church of Rome ... in Answer to Arguments Advanced in Favour of the Roman-Catholic Question; and More Especially, Those of Sir John Throckmorton |
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... rationally be measured by the interval that separates religion from policy , would , not many years ago , have been considered as too absurd to inquire ; and may yet be doubted . The experimen- tal proof has been too short in its ...
... rationally be measured by the interval that separates religion from policy , would , not many years ago , have been considered as too absurd to inquire ; and may yet be doubted . The experimen- tal proof has been too short in its ...
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... rational doctrines of Christianity , could have found its way into the Christian church , would , if those doctrines alone were consulted , appear an enigma impossible to be solved . But ambition is a subtle casuist , and zeal will ...
... rational doctrines of Christianity , could have found its way into the Christian church , would , if those doctrines alone were consulted , appear an enigma impossible to be solved . But ambition is a subtle casuist , and zeal will ...
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... rational consistency , to know how the Catho- lics would reconcile their disobedience to a decree of the Pope , who is the medium by which their church , which they believe to be infallible , speaks ; though they may not believe him ...
... rational consistency , to know how the Catho- lics would reconcile their disobedience to a decree of the Pope , who is the medium by which their church , which they believe to be infallible , speaks ; though they may not believe him ...
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... rational motives , and , much more , if proofs are resisted without motives , o proofs more rational being adduced to oppose them , such resistance can be resolved only into either prejudice or wilful error ; and in either case blame ...
... rational motives , and , much more , if proofs are resisted without motives , o proofs more rational being adduced to oppose them , such resistance can be resolved only into either prejudice or wilful error ; and in either case blame ...
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... rational ground of adherence to any system of religion is a conviction of its truth , the Heathen priests , conscious that they could offer no rational evidence in favour of their several systems ,, substituted the authority of ...
... rational ground of adherence to any system of religion is a conviction of its truth , the Heathen priests , conscious that they could offer no rational evidence in favour of their several systems ,, substituted the authority of ...
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Page 179 - Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind...
Page 71 - And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 136 - And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Page 185 - Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, That that disciple should not die : yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee...
Page 183 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Page 148 - God, are previous and indispensable requisites to establish a well-founded expectation of forgiveness ; and that any person who receives absolution without these previous requisites, so far from obtaining thereby any remission of his sins, incurs the additional guilt of violating a sacrament...
Page 175 - And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you...
Page 136 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Page 72 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Page 148 - I do not believe that any sin whatsoever committed by me can be forgiven at the mere will of any pope, or of any priest, or of any person or persons whatsoever; but...