Thoughts on Religion & Other Subjects [with Pious Reflections for Every Day in the Month & Prayers by Fénelon.].1846 - 283 pages |
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... divine religion , as they will here find laid together . CHAPTER II . MARKS OF THE TRUE RELIGION . THE true religion ought chiefly to distinguish itself , by obliging men to the love of God . This is what natural justice requires , and ...
... divine religion , as they will here find laid together . CHAPTER II . MARKS OF THE TRUE RELIGION . THE true religion ought chiefly to distinguish itself , by obliging men to the love of God . This is what natural justice requires , and ...
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... Divine nature being removed from human thoughts and discovery , every religion which does not confess it to be so , is false ; and every religion which does not show the reason why it is so , must be barren and unedifying . Our religion ...
... Divine nature being removed from human thoughts and discovery , every religion which does not confess it to be so , is false ; and every religion which does not show the reason why it is so , must be barren and unedifying . Our religion ...
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... divine promise of a Redeemer , yet since the world in its very infancy was overrun with all sorts of corruptions and disorders , God was pleased to raise up holy men , as Enoch , Lamech , and others , who , with a peculiar faith and ...
... divine promise of a Redeemer , yet since the world in its very infancy was overrun with all sorts of corruptions and disorders , God was pleased to raise up holy men , as Enoch , Lamech , and others , who , with a peculiar faith and ...
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... divine , this religion which has ever subsisted , has been ever opposed ; a thousand times has it been on the very brink of universal ruin ; and as often as it has been reduced to this estate , so often has it been relieved by some ...
... divine , this religion which has ever subsisted , has been ever opposed ; a thousand times has it been on the very brink of universal ruin ; and as often as it has been reduced to this estate , so often has it been relieved by some ...
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... Divine and human natures , has recovered men out of the corruption of sin , that he might reconcile them to God in his Divine person . True religion , therefore , instructs men in these two principles , that there is a God whom they are ...
... Divine and human natures , has recovered men out of the corruption of sin , that he might reconcile them to God in his Divine person . True religion , therefore , instructs men in these two principles , that there is a God whom they are ...
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