Considerations Upon War, Upon Cruelty in General, and Religious Cruelty in Particular: Also, an Attempt to Prove that Everlasting Punishments are Inconsistent with the Divine Attributes. In Several Letters and Essays. To which are Added, Essays on Divers Other Subjects, and An Oration in Praise of Deceit and LyingT. Osborne, 1758 - 468 páginas |
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Página xiii
... furely it could not fail of being greatly useful .. In order to raise an abhorrence of perfecution in general , and of popish perfecution in parti- cular , and confequently of the popish religion , a few felect inftances of the moft ...
... furely it could not fail of being greatly useful .. In order to raise an abhorrence of perfecution in general , and of popish perfecution in parti- cular , and confequently of the popish religion , a few felect inftances of the moft ...
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... furely every man , especially every good - na- tured and humane man , muft fee that a religion which teaches and exercifes cruelty , can be no other than a cruel and a wicked religion . Should any afk , -why fo much is faid con- cerning ...
... furely every man , especially every good - na- tured and humane man , muft fee that a religion which teaches and exercifes cruelty , can be no other than a cruel and a wicked religion . Should any afk , -why fo much is faid con- cerning ...
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... furely this attempt is the more neceffary , as a be- lief that the Almighty would give existence to any creature fo much as liable to be eternally miserable , might tend to raise doubts concerning his wifdom , his knowledge , and his ...
... furely this attempt is the more neceffary , as a be- lief that the Almighty would give existence to any creature fo much as liable to be eternally miserable , might tend to raise doubts concerning his wifdom , his knowledge , and his ...
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... furely , if the people have no real intereft in the quarrels of their princes , as it is certain they very fel- dom have , it would be highly reasonable that the princes only fhould fight . Would it not have been infinitely more juft ...
... furely , if the people have no real intereft in the quarrels of their princes , as it is certain they very fel- dom have , it would be highly reasonable that the princes only fhould fight . Would it not have been infinitely more juft ...
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... furely a very just one . As the religious regard paid by the Ro- mans , in the early times of the common- wealth , to their oaths , which is teftified by Livy and other hiftorians , is greatly to the honour of those pagans ; fo it ...
... furely a very just one . As the religious regard paid by the Ro- mans , in the early times of the common- wealth , to their oaths , which is teftified by Livy and other hiftorians , is greatly to the honour of those pagans ; fo it ...
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