The principles of infidelity and faith consider'd in a comparative view, 2 discourses1768 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 45 - Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Seite 19 - O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?
Seite 10 - him from the creation of the world are clearly feen, " being underftood by the things that are made, even " his eternal power and godhead...
Seite 62 - Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar...
Seite 36 - Cor. ix. 9 : can we think he meant to question the regard, that God hath to so useful a creature ? Do we not hear the Psalmist say, He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens that cry ? Psalm cxlvii. 9. Do we not hear our Saviour say, That not a sparrow falls to the ground without our Heavenly Father ? Matt.
Seite 24 - All things come alike to all, there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not...
Seite 12 - Whose power was it that framed this beautiful and stately fabric, this immense and spacious world ? that stretched out the North over the empty place, and hanged the earth upon nothing ? (Job. xxvi. 7.) That formed those vast and numberless orbs of heaven, and disposed them into such regular and uniform motions ? that appointed the sun to rule the day, and the moon and the stars to govern the night ? that so adjusted their several distances, as that they should neither be scorched by heat, nor destroyed...
Seite 35 - It is high as heaven, what can we know ? Deeper than hell, what can we do 1...
Seite 54 - And our blessed Lord Himself hath declared unto us that on the love of God and our neighbour hang all the law and the prophets. Certainly 'tis inculcated and bound upon the conscience as that without which all the spiritual gifts and performances are of no effect. Though you could speak with the tongues of men and angels, though you had the gift of prophecy and understood all mysteries and all knowledge, and though you had...
Seite 22 - PJutarch, agreed in the acknowledgment of two gods. Plutarch himself also, and according to his testimony Plato, in his old age, together with the Pythagoreans, acknowledged two gods ; the one the author of good, the other the author of evil.