A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of Thomas Paine, and Wavering Christians of Every Persuasion: with an Appendix, Containing the Author's Determination to Have Relinquished His Charge in the Established Church ... To which is Added, a Discourse on State Entertainments, and on Dreams and Night-visions ... With Numerous Additional Notes |
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... nature are to be answered by it , in the course of Divine Provi- dence . But , notwithstanding this persuasion , I have thought it my duty , in the following pages , to bear a decided testimony against some of the most pernicious of ...
... nature are to be answered by it , in the course of Divine Provi- dence . But , notwithstanding this persuasion , I have thought it my duty , in the following pages , to bear a decided testimony against some of the most pernicious of ...
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... nature upon our finite conceptions- Newton , whose science was truth , and the foun- dation of whose knowledge of it was philosophy : not those visionary and arrogant presumptions which too often usurp its name , but philosophy resting ...
... nature upon our finite conceptions- Newton , whose science was truth , and the foun- dation of whose knowledge of it was philosophy : not those visionary and arrogant presumptions which too often usurp its name , but philosophy resting ...
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... Nature to Nature's God . Yet the result of all his contemplation was the most confirmed and devout belief in all which the other holds in con- tempt , as despicable and drivelling superstition . " ' But this error might , perhaps ...
... Nature to Nature's God . Yet the result of all his contemplation was the most confirmed and devout belief in all which the other holds in con- tempt , as despicable and drivelling superstition . " ' But this error might , perhaps ...
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... nature , and the contemplation of the works of creation , are sufficient , without any other revelation of the divine will . Socrates , Plato , Xenophon , Tully - each of them in their turns professed they wanted other lights and ...
... nature , and the contemplation of the works of creation , are sufficient , without any other revelation of the divine will . Socrates , Plato , Xenophon , Tully - each of them in their turns professed they wanted other lights and ...
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... nature of his case ; flees to the blood of the sprinkling for pardon ; and returns with renewed vigour to the path of duty . Giving all diligence , he adds to his faith , virtue ; and to virtue , knowledge : and to knowledge ...
... nature of his case ; flees to the blood of the sprinkling for pardon ; and returns with renewed vigour to the path of duty . Giving all diligence , he adds to his faith , virtue ; and to virtue , knowledge : and to knowledge ...
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