The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen, Volume 2J. Peele, 1743 |
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... BIBLE . W E can never fufficiently admire and adore the infinite Goodness of God to Mankind , in giving him a per ... Bibles , daily to read them , and fearch ourfelves for thofe Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge ! And . 7 And how ...
... BIBLE . W E can never fufficiently admire and adore the infinite Goodness of God to Mankind , in giving him a per ... Bibles , daily to read them , and fearch ourfelves for thofe Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge ! And . 7 And how ...
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... Bible ( even on the Pre- tence of Religion itself ) out of the People's Hands , or have made it useless there ; and fuch is the fenfelefs Stupidity of the gaping Herd , that they observe not the Injury done them , and not only fuffer ...
... Bible ( even on the Pre- tence of Religion itself ) out of the People's Hands , or have made it useless there ; and fuch is the fenfelefs Stupidity of the gaping Herd , that they observe not the Injury done them , and not only fuffer ...
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... Bible is not extant in the vulgar Tongue , and confequently must be un- known altogether to the People , who are in- capable of reading it even by Licence ; which can scarcely be called a Privilege loft , confider- ing how few durft ask ...
... Bible is not extant in the vulgar Tongue , and confequently must be un- known altogether to the People , who are in- capable of reading it even by Licence ; which can scarcely be called a Privilege loft , confider- ing how few durft ask ...
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... Bible . And in order to confider this Matter , I fhall premife two things : First , That the End and Design of reading the Bible , is to find out the Will of God , or the Mean- ing which God holds forth to us therein , that we may ...
... Bible . And in order to confider this Matter , I fhall premife two things : First , That the End and Design of reading the Bible , is to find out the Will of God , or the Mean- ing which God holds forth to us therein , that we may ...
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... Bible in that Sense which he thinks to have been intended by God ; but that we should act , and be permitted to act , in this Matter , as we do . in understanding any other Book : For if fuch Arts , and Crafts , and Force are used , to ...
... Bible in that Sense which he thinks to have been intended by God ; but that we should act , and be permitted to act , in this Matter , as we do . in understanding any other Book : For if fuch Arts , and Crafts , and Force are used , to ...
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Page 219 - He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected : hereby know we that we are in Him.
Page 248 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 226 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Page 144 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page 176 - And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said ; John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Page 222 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 227 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 145 - Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Page 225 - The inspired record describes him as "a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Page 250 - So that riot only this our craft is in danger to be fet at nought ; but alfo that the temple of the great goddefs Diana fhould be defpifed, and her magnificence fhould be deftroy28 ed, whom all Afia, and the world, worfhippeth.