The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: I. On Personal Identity: and II. On the Nature of Virtue. : Together with A Charge, Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, at the Primary Visitation, in the Year 1751Samuel G. Goodrich., 1819 - 239 páginas |
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... Christianity , and of what was esteemed one , who was perfectly competent to judge , its best establishment , by the Church of ENGLAND . In the present publication I consider myself as a fellow - laborer with you in the same design ...
... Christianity , and of what was esteemed one , who was perfectly competent to judge , its best establishment , by the Church of ENGLAND . In the present publication I consider myself as a fellow - laborer with you in the same design ...
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... Christians , are proofs of this . On comparing these two parts of religion together , one , it is immediately seen , is of much greater im- portance than the other ; and , whenever they happen to interfere , is always to be preferred ...
... Christians , are proofs of this . On comparing these two parts of religion together , one , it is immediately seen , is of much greater im- portance than the other ; and , whenever they happen to interfere , is always to be preferred ...
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... Christianity , popery , which is ever hard at work to bring us again under its yoke . Whoever will consider the popish claims to the disposal of the whole earth , as of divine right , to dispense with the most sacred engagements , the ...
... Christianity , popery , which is ever hard at work to bring us again under its yoke . Whoever will consider the popish claims to the disposal of the whole earth , as of divine right , to dispense with the most sacred engagements , the ...
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... Christianity , free from the superstitions with which it is defiled in other countries ; " which superstions , he observes , " natu- rally tend to abate its force . " + The date of this sermon should here be attended to . It was ...
... Christianity , free from the superstitions with which it is defiled in other countries ; " which superstions , he observes , " natu- rally tend to abate its force . " + The date of this sermon should here be attended to . It was ...
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... Christianity , begins with the consideration of its importance . The importance of Christianity appears in two respects . First , in its being a republication of Natural Religion , in its native simplicity , with authority , and with ...
... Christianity , begins with the consideration of its importance . The importance of Christianity appears in two respects . First , in its being a republication of Natural Religion , in its native simplicity , with authority , and with ...
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actions afford analogy of nature answer appear appointed arise atheism Author of nature behaviour Bishop Bishop BUTLER BISHOP OF DURHAM BUTLER capacities cerning Chap character Christ Christianity common concerning consequences consideration considered constitution and course constitution of nature contrary course of nature course of things creatures credible death degree DIOCESE OF DURHAM dispensation divine doubt effect evidence of religion exercise experience external fact faculties farther future gion God's habits happiness implies instances JOSEPH BUTLER judge justice kind laws living agents mankind manner matter means mind miracles misery moral government natural government natural religion necessity notion objections observations occasions Oriel college ourselves particular personal identity persons piety plainly practice Prelate present presumption principle proof prophecies reason regard relation render respect revelation rewarded and punished rience scheme Scripture sense shew shewn sort suppose supposition temporal tendency thought tion truth ture ural vicious virtuous whole
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Página 232 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Página 145 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Página 186 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Página 154 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Página 41 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that "he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it as are found in the constitution of nature.
Página 155 - Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Página 156 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever.
Página 145 - For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son, that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
Página 54 - Nay, for what we know of ourselves, of our present life and of death, death may immediately, in the natural course of things, put us into a higher and more enlarged state of life, as our birth does;* a state in which our capacities and sphere of perception and of action may be much greater than at present.
Página 122 - To prevent this appears to have been one reason why a visible church was instituted ; to be like a city upon a hill, a standing memorial to the world of the duty which we owe our Maker ; to call men continually both by example and instruction to attend to it, and by the form of Religion ever before their eyes remind them of the reality ; to be the repository of the oracles of God ; to hold up the light of revelation in aid to that of nature, and propagate it throughout all generations to the end...