...tenets, forcibly reminds us of a quaint but applicable passage in the Religio Medice of Sir T. Browne : " Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...he strived to undermine the edifice of my faith." If the truth and certainty of the Sacred Writings are to be measured by the standard of human reason,...

...Moses ; the Israelites saw but that in his time, which the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...reason, he strived to undermine the edifice of my faith. XX. Neither had these, or any other, ever such advantage of me, as to incline me to any point of infidelity...

...days of Moses ? the Israelite saw but that in his time, the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...taking advantage of my honest endeavours ; and whilst I labored to raise the * 1 Kings, xviii. structure of my reason, he strived to undermine the edifice...

...Moses ?" The Israelites saw but that, in his time, which the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and, yielding...I laboured to raise the structure of my reason, he strove to undermine the edifice of my faith. SECT. xx. — Neither had these or any other ever such...

...Moses ?" The Israelites saw but that, in his time, which the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and, yielding...; and, whilst I laboured to raise the structure of niv reason, he strove to undermine the edifice of my faith. SECT, xx.— Neither had these or any other...

...Moses ?" The Israelites saw but that, in his time, which the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and, yielding...gain a queen of me ; taking advantage of my honest endea\ vours ; and, whilst I laboured to raise the structure of my reason, he strove to undermine the...

...of Moses ? the Israelites saw but that in his time, the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...reason, he strived to undermine the edifice of my faith. Neither had these or any other ever such advantage of me, as to incline me to any point of infi(5I)...

...days of Moses 1 the Israelites saw but that in his time the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...reason, he strived to undermine the edifice of my faith. XX. Neither had these or any other ever such advantage of me as to incline me to any point of infidelity...

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...give me an earlier allusion than the following, from Edigio Medici (written 1635, published 1642)?— "Thus the Devil played at Chess with me, and yielding...unfamiliar. I. ABRAHAMS. London Institution. DIARY or THE REV. WM. MBEKR, OF SKIPSEA, со. YORK, AND SALFORD, со. LANCASTER, c. 1650. — In 1874 a...