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... facts , they relate with tedious exactness many uninterest- ing particulars . They feem , however , to have been men of real piety , industry , and learning , and may be of much ufe ¡ ages has heightened the difficulty * . From these ...
... facts , they relate with tedious exactness many uninterest- ing particulars . They feem , however , to have been men of real piety , industry , and learning , and may be of much ufe ¡ ages has heightened the difficulty * . From these ...
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... facts ; and , if I be rather more copious in reflections than the fevere laws of history allow , he will do well to obferve , that the fashionable mif- representations of ancient story require con- fiderable attention . And , zdly . I ...
... facts ; and , if I be rather more copious in reflections than the fevere laws of history allow , he will do well to obferve , that the fashionable mif- representations of ancient story require con- fiderable attention . And , zdly . I ...
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... facts , by deficiency of evidence , and by pofitive and declamatory affertions . - The readers , who love to fee ecclefiaftical ranks , dignities and efta- blishments degraded and vilified with indifcri- minating averfion , will here ...
... facts , by deficiency of evidence , and by pofitive and declamatory affertions . - The readers , who love to fee ecclefiaftical ranks , dignities and efta- blishments degraded and vilified with indifcri- minating averfion , will here ...
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... facts . In ec- clefiaftical matters the exercife of any fort of authority , not immediately derived from the mul- titude , feems to be among the greatest crimes a man can commit , whether he be an emperor or a prelate . The commiffion ...
... facts . In ec- clefiaftical matters the exercife of any fort of authority , not immediately derived from the mul- titude , feems to be among the greatest crimes a man can commit , whether he be an emperor or a prelate . The commiffion ...
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... fact , that he actually put none of those laws into execution . In this fame paffage alfo , with equal clearnefs , Mr. M. pronounces thefe very penalties , or penal edicts , HEAVY and TY- RANNICAL ; and adds , that the denunciation of ...
... fact , that he actually put none of those laws into execution . In this fame paffage alfo , with equal clearnefs , Mr. M. pronounces thefe very penalties , or penal edicts , HEAVY and TY- RANNICAL ; and adds , that the denunciation of ...
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Page 233 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 242 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 390 - Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Page 25 - Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Page xxiv - For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour ; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus ; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Page 18 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
Page 9 - ... name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Page 396 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 207 - For it much more concerns them to punish those who refuse to worship them than you, if they be able. But you harass and vex the Christians, and accuse them of Atheism and other crimes, which you can by no means prove. To them it appears an advantage to die for their religion, and they gain their point, while they throw away their lives, rather than comply with your injunctions. As to the earthquakes, which have happened in...
Page 617 - Chrift ; who gave himfelf for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himfelf a peculiar people zealous of good works.