Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 18, Part 2Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 417
... theology Theogn's . Theogony , his time . 4. Epistles . 5. Difcourfes on Providence . And , which taught the genealogy of their gods . 6. An excellent treatise against the Pagans , intitled , De Cu- randis Græcorum Affectibus ; and ...
... theology Theogn's . Theogony , his time . 4. Epistles . 5. Difcourfes on Providence . And , which taught the genealogy of their gods . 6. An excellent treatise against the Pagans , intitled , De Cu- randis Græcorum Affectibus ; and ...
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... theology , receives , at leaft in this country , the rudiments of a liberal education , it may perhaps be fuperfluous to mention here any books as peculiarly proper to teach him the art of fpeaking we cannot however forbear to recommend ...
... theology , receives , at leaft in this country , the rudiments of a liberal education , it may perhaps be fuperfluous to mention here any books as peculiarly proper to teach him the art of fpeaking we cannot however forbear to recommend ...
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... theology , and are of the utmost importance , as being to us the firit principles of all religion . Natural theology , in this fenfe of the word , is the foundation of the Chriftian revelation ; for without a previous knowledge of it ...
... theology , and are of the utmost importance , as being to us the firit principles of all religion . Natural theology , in this fenfe of the word , is the foundation of the Chriftian revelation ; for without a previous knowledge of it ...
Page 420
... THEOLOGY . Prelimi- no means fuch difcoverers as they are fuppofed to be by nary Direc - their illiterate admirers ... theological inquiry into the general de - nary Direc- fign of the written word ; and from principles fully con- tained ...
... THEOLOGY . Prelimi- no means fuch difcoverers as they are fuppofed to be by nary Direc - their illiterate admirers ... theological inquiry into the general de - nary Direc- fign of the written word ; and from principles fully con- tained ...
Page 421
... THEOLOGY . Prelini fonableness of Chriflianity , have long been held in the highelt efteem ; whilft the followers of Calvin have preferred the Inflitutiones of their mafter , Turretine's Inflitutio Theologie Elenica , and Gill's Body of ...
... THEOLOGY . Prelini fonableness of Chriflianity , have long been held in the highelt efteem ; whilft the followers of Calvin have preferred the Inflitutiones of their mafter , Turretine's Inflitutio Theologie Elenica , and Gill's Body of ...
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Page 459 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 481 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. And hath put all things under his feet : and gave him to be the head over all things, to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all...
Page 474 - For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Page 465 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 440 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 446 - Here grows the cure of all, this fruit divine, Fair to the eye, inviting to the taste, Of virtue to make wise: What hinders then To reach, and feed at once both body and mind ? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat!
Page 504 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, the eye that distinguishes in...
Page 449 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Page 443 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Page 484 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers (Le. various) kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.