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, Volumen1Thomas Gordon, John Trenchard J. Peele, 1743 |
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... Chriftian ' Charity of St. Paul quite out of the World . And yet that this is the true Cause , and the true State , of modern Orthodox Charity , appears abundantly from hence , that the moft wicked good Churchman has more Compliment ...
... Chriftian ' Charity of St. Paul quite out of the World . And yet that this is the true Cause , and the true State , of modern Orthodox Charity , appears abundantly from hence , that the moft wicked good Churchman has more Compliment ...
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... Chriftian Religion ever thrived or gained by Riches . I , on my Side , can fhew that they have been always Poison to it . Riches first made Priests rampant , and fuch Priests foon defaced and ruined Religion ; but more or less ...
... Chriftian Religion ever thrived or gained by Riches . I , on my Side , can fhew that they have been always Poison to it . Riches first made Priests rampant , and fuch Priests foon defaced and ruined Religion ; but more or less ...
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... Chriftian more than a few or an Indian , any further than as he is a better Citizen ; and not fo much , if he be not . BARBEYRAC , in his excellent Preface to his Tranflation of Puffendorf de Jure- Nature Nature & Genium , has fhewn us ...
... Chriftian more than a few or an Indian , any further than as he is a better Citizen ; and not fo much , if he be not . BARBEYRAC , in his excellent Preface to his Tranflation of Puffendorf de Jure- Nature Nature & Genium , has fhewn us ...
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... Chriftian Prin- ciple ftrongly implanted in them , of doing as they would be done by , how little foever of that Doctrine appeared in the Actions of their Oppofers . WHEN the Independent Whig came into the Diocese of Mann , the Bishop ...
... Chriftian Prin- ciple ftrongly implanted in them , of doing as they would be done by , how little foever of that Doctrine appeared in the Actions of their Oppofers . WHEN the Independent Whig came into the Diocese of Mann , the Bishop ...
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... mentioned is to undermine the Chriftian Religion , appears by the Author's reprefenting all Religion as a mere Contrivance of Ecclefiaftics for their own Interests ; Br BY his Rage and Malice against the antient Creeds , 班 A LETTER to.
... mentioned is to undermine the Chriftian Religion , appears by the Author's reprefenting all Religion as a mere Contrivance of Ecclefiaftics for their own Interests ; Br BY his Rage and Malice against the antient Creeds , 班 A LETTER to.
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