Considerations Upon War, Upon Cruelty in General: And Religious Cruelty in Particular. Also, an Attempt to Prove that Everlasting Punishments are Inconsistent with the Divine Attributes. ...T. Osborne, 1758 - 468 pàgines |
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Pàgina 58
... suppose , that at the fight of these horrid fcenes any of his fellow - creatures fhould find not only matter of pleasure and fatisfaction , but of the highest exultation and triumph ? That conquerors do , is nevertheless a fad truth ...
... suppose , that at the fight of these horrid fcenes any of his fellow - creatures fhould find not only matter of pleasure and fatisfaction , but of the highest exultation and triumph ? That conquerors do , is nevertheless a fad truth ...
Pàgina 109
... Suppose a nation to be wicked and un- godly , ( is there , or was there ever one in the world otherwife ? ) can we imagine almighty God fo deftitute of the means of punishing , ' if he is difpofed to punish , as to be under a neceffity ...
... Suppose a nation to be wicked and un- godly , ( is there , or was there ever one in the world otherwife ? ) can we imagine almighty God fo deftitute of the means of punishing , ' if he is difpofed to punish , as to be under a neceffity ...
Pàgina 111
... suppose will be their methods of worship ; and thus we find it in fact : for man- kind having too generally believed their gods , or the One God , to be cruel , divers parts of their devotion have been fuited to this belief . THESE ...
... suppose will be their methods of worship ; and thus we find it in fact : for man- kind having too generally believed their gods , or the One God , to be cruel , divers parts of their devotion have been fuited to this belief . THESE ...
Pàgina 112
... suppose he would approve , much less command , or be pleased with , their in- flicting cruelties upon themselves . BESIDE the extreme feverities exercised by many particular perfons among chriftians , fuch as living alone on defolate ...
... suppose he would approve , much less command , or be pleased with , their in- flicting cruelties upon themselves . BESIDE the extreme feverities exercised by many particular perfons among chriftians , fuch as living alone on defolate ...
Pàgina 154
... suppose that all the faints who were put to death by the Ro- man emperors were , properly speaking , mar- tyrs to chriftianity : it is well known that fome fome of them fuffered for practices against the government , 154 Of RELIGIOUS ...
... suppose that all the faints who were put to death by the Ro- man emperors were , properly speaking , mar- tyrs to chriftianity : it is well known that fome fome of them fuffered for practices against the government , 154 Of RELIGIOUS ...
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Pàgina 119 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Pàgina 362 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance...
Pàgina 104 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Pàgina 447 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Pàgina 356 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Pàgina 362 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Pàgina 106 - Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
Pàgina 446 - And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.
Pàgina 450 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Pàgina 433 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.