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Hannah Adams. 1 nities ; but the reigning religion was totally external . It held out no body of doctrines , no public instruc- tion to participate on stated days in the established worship . The only faith required was , to believe that ...
Hannah Adams. 1 nities ; but the reigning religion was totally external . It held out no body of doctrines , no public instruc- tion to participate on stated days in the established worship . The only faith required was , to believe that ...
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... held they were punished in the body , which the souls of those who commit- ted them were next sent into . There seems indeed to have been entertained amongst the jews in our Saviour's time a notion of the pre - existence of souls , How ...
... held they were punished in the body , which the souls of those who commit- ted them were next sent into . There seems indeed to have been entertained amongst the jews in our Saviour's time a notion of the pre - existence of souls , How ...
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... held in common ; but the Greeks were much divided about the first principles of science . * Amongst the Grecian sects there were some who declaimed openly against religion , and denied the immortality of the soul ; and others who ...
... held in common ; but the Greeks were much divided about the first principles of science . * Amongst the Grecian sects there were some who declaimed openly against religion , and denied the immortality of the soul ; and others who ...
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... held Plato in the highest esteem ; but they did not scruple to join with his doc- trines whatever they thought conformable to reason in the tenets of other philosophers . Potamo , a Platonist , appears to have been the first projector ...
... held Plato in the highest esteem ; but they did not scruple to join with his doc- trines whatever they thought conformable to reason in the tenets of other philosophers . Potamo , a Platonist , appears to have been the first projector ...
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... held by the ancients , that from nothing nothing can be produced . He supposed spirit and matter , light and darkness , to be emanations from one eternal source . The active and passive principles he conceived to be perpetually at ...
... held by the ancients , that from nothing nothing can be produced . He supposed spirit and matter , light and darkness , to be emanations from one eternal source . The active and passive principles he conceived to be perpetually at ...
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Page 20 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 105 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, "Why hast thou made me thus ? " Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Page 25 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Page 15 - Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Page 10 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 27 - And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming : even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish : because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 7 - BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand : by which also ye are saved, - if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed" in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures...
Page 252 - And that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 110 - For by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Page 322 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.