The History of Religion: A Rational Account of the True Religion, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1850 |
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actions affirmed Almighty angels animals Aristotle Atheist atom attributes Augustine beasts behold believe beneficence Blessed body cause Christ Christian Cicero comprehend confess consummate contemplation corruption created creation creatures Deity divers Divine doubtless earth Epictetus Epicureans Epicurus eternal evil excellent existence faculties fancy Father fountain glorious glory God's gods govern happy heathen Heaven Herbert Thorndike Hermes Trismegistus Hesiod Hierocles Holy human soul idolatry immortal infinite innumerable intellectual justice Justin Martyr knowledge Lactantius living mankind Maximus Tyrius moral motion of matter move namely necessity never noble objects Omnipotent oracles Pagans passions perfection persons philosophers Plato Plotinus Plutarch pretend principle produce punish Pythagoras rational reason religion rest Scripture Seneca sense sensual showed Socrates soul speak spirits substance Tertullian Thee things Thou thought tion truth tunicles universal virtue whence Wherefore whilst wisdom wise word worship
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Page 45 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 189 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 226 - Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word; and so fetch them home, blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites...
Page 233 - Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection; and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment; they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented (of whom the world was not worthy); they wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens...
Page iii - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Page 113 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Page 104 - For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit. Yea, rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled.
Page 133 - ... fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te.
Page 113 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Page ix - As we went up to receive the Sacrament, the miscreants held their muskets against us, as if they would have shot us at the altar, but yet suffering us to finish the office of Communion, as perhaps not having instructions what to do, in case they found us in that action.