| John Morison - 1832 - 278 pages
...disciples ? Is it not notorious * Lord Bolingbroke himself has said, that " The gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of...justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity." Works, vol. vp 138. that self-murder,* that crimes which admit of no description,f that theft, that... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1832 - 478 pages
...morality. But their acknowledgments are therefore the more important, when they allow that " the gospel is one continued lesson of the strictest morality...justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity," ' and when they declare they would preserve Christianity, for the sake of its moral influence on the... | |
| 1834 - 588 pages
...it contains a most simple and intelligible rule of belief, worship and manners ; and that the gospel is one continued lesson of the strictest morality,...justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity. Rousseau too makes the following acknowledgment — " I will confess to you, further, that the majesty... | |
| 1836 - 432 pages
...natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind, as the Christian. The gospel of Christ is one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of justice, benevolence, and universal charity. Supposing Christianity to be a human invention it is the most amiable... | |
| John Leland - 1837 - 784 pages
...contains all the duties of natural religion, and teaches them in the most plain and simple manner. It is one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of justice, of benevolence, and of universal charily : and tends to extinguish those principles of avarice and ambition, of injustice andviolence,... | |
| 1841 - 276 pages
...it contains a most simple and intelligible rule of belief, worship, and manners; and that the Gospel is one continued lesson of the strictest morality,...justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity. IT is no unusual thing for men of the most abandoned Character to be struck with profound awe, and... | |
| Christian - 1843 - 412 pages
...gospel, contains not only a complete, but a very plain system of religion. The gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of...justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity." After such confessions as these, one could scarcely see any very consistent ground upon which, as a... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 206 pages
...Christianity contains a most simple and intelligible rule of belief, worship, and manners, and that the Gospel is one continued lesson of the strictest morality,...justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity." The word GOSPEL in the original Greek, signifies good nervs or glad tidings, see Isaiah Hi. 7. No two... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 200 pages
...Christianity contains a most simple and intelligible rule of belief, worship, and manners, and that the Gospel is one continued lesson of the strictest morality,...justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity." The word GOSPEL in the original Greek, signifies good news or glad tidings, see Isaiah lii. 7. No two... | |
| James Caughey - 1847 - 376 pages
...gospel, contains not only a complete, but a very plain system of religion. The gospel is, in all cases, one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of justice, of benevolence, and of universal charily." What sentiments for a deist to advance ! What more could the most ardent Christian say ?... | |
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