Free thoughts on religion, the Church, and national happiness, by B.M.Printed, and sold by T. Jauncy, and J. Roberts, 1720 - 364 pagina's |
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Pagina 99 - God, he says, either wishes to take away evils, and is unable; or He is able, and is unwilling; or He is neither willing nor able, or He is both willing and able. If He is willing and is unable, He is feeble, which is not in accordance with the character of God ; if He is able and unwilling, He is envious, which is...
Pagina 348 - Queft of an Eutopia to be look'd for in a Revolution, that in all Human probability will never be brought about, and of which the very Attempt, whether the thing it felf be...
Pagina 160 - ... of error. Again therefore and again I enjoin and charge the zealous followers of the true religion, no way to injure, molest, or affront the Galilean people.
Pagina 3 - HE who believes, in the common Acceptation, that there is a God, and that the "World is rul'd by Providence, but has no Faith in any thing reveal'd to us, is a Deift 5 and he, who believes neither the one or the other, is an Acheift.
Pagina 81 - That the more contradiftious any thing is to Reafon, the greater merit there is in believing it : I fay, let us fuppofe, that in this ftate of things, one or more of the moft Eminent then in the Church, either out of Defign, or out of fuperftitious...
Pagina 82 - ... but this is the gallantry and heroical power of faith, this is the way to oblige God Almighty for ever to us, to believe flat and downright contradictions. . . . The more...
Pagina 98 - For instance, if you say that God permitted sin to manifest his wisdom, which shines the more brightly by the disorders which the wickedness of men produces every day, than it would have done in a state of innocence ; it may be answered, that this is to compare the Deity to a father who should suffer his children to break their legs, on purpose to show to all the city his great art in setting their broken bones ; or to a king who should suffer seditions and factions to increase through all his kingdom,...
Pagina 91 - tis ten to one, will dash it to pieces, and if he dares speak his mind tell you that he had rather pay for the glass than not have the pleasure to convince you of your folly, obstinacy, or what else his passion or manners shall give him leave to call it.