 Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.  Familiar Essays, on Interesting Subjects ...1787 - 170 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Joseph Addison - 1825 - 288 pages
...extent of it ?" his answer is : " Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." A direction that was copied from his own practice, in the latter part of his life, and after his retirement... | |
 | William Malkin - 1825 - 504 pages
...of the Christian religion? says, " Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament; therein are contained the words of eternal life. It...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." Sir William Jones wrote at the end of his Bible, " I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...a book required or admitted a motto, there could be none chosen more descriptive or appropriate : " Therein are contained the words of eternal life :...Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." The distinction also which he makes between Morality and the worldly term Prudence, is highly judicious,... | |
 | John Benjamin Seely - 1825 - 650 pages
...convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and the ruling providence of its great Author." — Gibbon. " It has God for its author, salvation for its end,...without any mixture of error for its matter." — Locke. " Mussulmans are already a sort of heterodox Christians, because they believe firmly the immaculate... | |
 | 1825 - 556 pages
...to render men virtuous and happy, even in this life only. The Scripture, on the other hand, ' with God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error, for its matter,' it commands with ¡minority, it speaks to the heart and to the understandmg, it reveals the Almighty... | |
 | 874 pages
...poetic, the most faithful, and the most pure and influential of all books. " It has," as Locke said, " God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its subject matter." He, therefore, who is entrusted with the education of the young, and doe* not most... | |
 | 1825 - 630 pages
...fruits of the Gentile world. FROM LOCKE. LET us study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author—salvation for its end—and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. , • FROM... | |
 | Catholic claims - 1826 - 322 pages
...it is demanded that we should surrender the free, stated, and general perusal of that volume which " has God for its author, salvation for its end, and...truth without any mixture of error for its matter." Where the eggs of the cockatrice are thus unsparingly deposited, can it be a cause of surprise that... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1826 - 878 pages
...superstition, on the one hand, and infidelity on the other. The Bible has God for its author, happiness for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter ; " and he that believeth not may be damned." Now is not that evidence enough ? What would men have?... | |
 | 1827 - 316 pages
...sentiments of most exalted gratitude and delight, in the language of that eminent author, John Locke, "Therein are contained the words of eternal life....truth without any mixture of error for its matter." Shall a volume so precious lay unoccupied on the shelf? Shall it merely meet the eye, to attract commendation... | |
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