 | Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 610 pàgines
...which had beheld his humble condition upon earth." He will see in the assertion of this writer, that " for wise purposes this error was permitted to subsist in the church," nothing but a gross and ill-founded libel on our holy religion, and that the doctrine of the second... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pàgines
..." Church, it was productive of the moft falutary efiects on " the faith and practice ofChriftians, who lived in the awful " expectation of that moment when the globe itfelf and all the " various race of mankind fliould tremble at the appearance of <; their divine Judge."... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pàgines
...upon earth. Yet the revolution of seventeen centuries has instructed us not to press too closely the language of prophecy and revelation. But as long as...most salutary effects on the faith and practice of Chrisiiins, \vb,o lived in the awful expectation cf that moment when the globe itself, and all the... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pàgines
...Hadrian. The revolution of seventeen centuries has instructed us not to press too closely the mysterious language of prophecy and revelation ; but as long...most salutary effects on the faith and practice of Christians6.' But the lapse of time, I conceive, furnishes a very different lesson. It instructs us,... | |
 | Nehemiah Nisbett - 1812 - 340 pàgines
...for wise purposes, this error was permit|ed to subsist in the church ; it was productive of the fnost salutary effects on the faith and practice of christians,...mankind should tremble at the appearance of their divine ,Judge."t If this objection, so acetely and pointedly urged, Jiad originated with Mr. Gibbon i you... | |
 | George Bush - 1832 - 284 pàgines
...Hadrian. The revolution of seventeen centuries has instructed us not to press too closely the mysterious language of prophecy and revelation ; but as long...mankind, should tremble at the appearance of their divine Judge."* Can it be doubted that the language of the sacred writers is so constructed, as that it should,... | |
 | Henry Dana Ward - 1838 - 204 pàgines
..."error.'" Suppose it were an error ; it was certainly a very singular one ; for, " as long as — it was permitted to subsist in the church, it was productive...salutary effects, on the faith and practice of Christians !" No doubt of it ; and they had much better remained in the " error," to this day : then all the reign... | |
 | W. J. P. Wilkinson - 1839 - 124 pàgines
...upon earth. Yet the revolution of seventeen centuries has instructed us not to press too closely the language of prophecy and revelation. But as long as,...this error was permitted to subsist in the church, ft was productive of the most salutary effects on the faith and practice of christians, who lived in... | |
 | George Ayliffe Poole - 1840 - 464 pàgines
...Hadrian. The revolution of seventeen centuries has instructed us not to press too closely the mysterious language of prophecy and revelation ; but as long as, for wise purposes, the error was permitted to subsist in the Church, it was productive of the most salutary effects on... | |
 | George Bush - 1842 - 240 pàgines
...Hadrian. The revolution of seventeen centuries has instructed us not to press too closely the mysterious language of prophecy and revelation ; but as long...mankind, should tremble at the appearance of their divine Judge."* Can it be doubted that the language of the sacred writers is so constructed, as that it should,... | |
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... of the calamities of the Jews under Vespasian or Hadrian. The revolution of seventeen centuries has instructed us not to press too closely the mysterious language of prophecy and revelation; but as long as, for wise purposes, this error was permitted... 
