An Appeal to the Christian Public in Defence of Reason and National Christianity: In Several Parts: Part I- the Extravagant, Mysterious and Unscriptural Doctrines of Orthodoxy Strictly Examined, and Gross Imposition Exposed ... |
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... command to effect such an object ? Who would compel the people to be religious in their way ; to worship by their creed , or destroy them upon the wheel of torture , thrust them down the precipice or roast them in glowing flames ? A ...
... command to effect such an object ? Who would compel the people to be religious in their way ; to worship by their creed , or destroy them upon the wheel of torture , thrust them down the precipice or roast them in glowing flames ? A ...
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... command , and pro- ceeded to read his text . The clergyman then commanded the tithing - man to seize him . He was directed to be conveyed to Wareham jail ; and to every question the preacher put , as to the ground of his being seized ...
... command , and pro- ceeded to read his text . The clergyman then commanded the tithing - man to seize him . He was directed to be conveyed to Wareham jail ; and to every question the preacher put , as to the ground of his being seized ...
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... command and like subjects to a monarch , the people run to obey , through fear of incurring the displeasure of our religious tyrants . This is American independence ! Extracts from Lectures on Physiology , Zoology , and the Natural ...
... command and like subjects to a monarch , the people run to obey , through fear of incurring the displeasure of our religious tyrants . This is American independence ! Extracts from Lectures on Physiology , Zoology , and the Natural ...
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... command , and secure the approbation of him whose frown is death , and whose power is life ? Unreasonable ? O forgive the question ! - No ! it is reasonable . It is right . It is proper . - It is a high and blessed privilege , that we ...
... command , and secure the approbation of him whose frown is death , and whose power is life ? Unreasonable ? O forgive the question ! - No ! it is reasonable . It is right . It is proper . - It is a high and blessed privilege , that we ...
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... commands to their powers , a father's joy in their pro- gress , a father's readiness to receive the penitent , and a father's justice for the incorrigible . We look upon this world as a place of education , in which he is training men ...
... commands to their powers , a father's joy in their pro- gress , a father's readiness to receive the penitent , and a father's justice for the incorrigible . We look upon this world as a place of education , in which he is training men ...
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Page 124 - Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Page 11 - Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son ; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Page 129 - As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he by the eternal and most free purpose of his will foreordained all the means thereunto : wherefore they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by his power, through faith, unto salvation. Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, or effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified and saved, but...
Page 12 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one ; much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.
Page 187 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Page 187 - Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
Page 112 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Page 74 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 132 - Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
Page 132 - All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by his Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ...