A Series of Discourses on the Principles of Religious Belief as Connected with Human Happiness and Improvement, Volumen1Constable, 1809 - 441 páginas |
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... a plu- rality of gods is so common a tenet in the superstition of barbarous nations : why the Deity is rather supposed to be traced in the irregular convulsions of nature than in its steady 6 THE CHARACTER OF RELIGION .
... a plu- rality of gods is so common a tenet in the superstition of barbarous nations : why the Deity is rather supposed to be traced in the irregular convulsions of nature than in its steady 6 THE CHARACTER OF RELIGION .
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... were not to be re- garded as manifestations of Deity ; still less , therefore , could they conceive him in- cluded in any limited bodily form . Traces of him they might find every where ; but he THE CHARACTER OF RELIGION . 7.
... were not to be re- garded as manifestations of Deity ; still less , therefore , could they conceive him in- cluded in any limited bodily form . Traces of him they might find every where ; but he THE CHARACTER OF RELIGION . 7.
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... Deity , and to fix him in any particular department of his works , or supposes that he is chiefly to be found in the midst of noise and fury and desola- tion ; and that it is true religion and phi- losophy which traces through all the ...
... Deity , and to fix him in any particular department of his works , or supposes that he is chiefly to be found in the midst of noise and fury and desola- tion ; and that it is true religion and phi- losophy which traces through all the ...
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... Deity , they seem to be so simple , so beautiful , and so conclusive , that we are sometimes dispo- sed to undervalue every other source of religious instruction . When we reflect , however , my SERMON II On the Character of Scripture ...
... Deity , they seem to be so simple , so beautiful , and so conclusive , that we are sometimes dispo- sed to undervalue every other source of religious instruction . When we reflect , however , my SERMON II On the Character of Scripture ...
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... Deity seems to conde- scend to the wishes of his creatures in a manner that may appear to contradict the lofty and exalted views which we are now taught to form of his nature . Yet , my brethren , in all such scenes , the thing which ...
... Deity seems to conde- scend to the wishes of his creatures in a manner that may appear to contradict the lofty and exalted views which we are now taught to form of his nature . Yet , my brethren , in all such scenes , the thing which ...
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