The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Conyers Middleton ...R. Manby, 1755 |
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Side liv - Whatsoever else they believe besides it, and the plain irrefragable, indubitable consequences of it, well may they hold it as a matter of opinion : but as matter of faith and religion, neither can they with coherence to their own grounds believe it themselves, nor require the belief of it of others, without most high and most schismatical presumption. I, for my part, after a long, and (as I verily believe and hope) impartial search of the true way to eternal happiness...
Side liv - No tradition, but only of Scripture, can derive itself from the fountain ; but may be plainly proved, either to have been brought in, in such an age after Christ, or that in such an age it was not in. In a word, there is no sufficient certainty but of Scripture only for any considering man to build upon.
Side liv - I, for my part, after a long, and (as I verily believe and hope) impartial search of the true way to eternal happiness, do profess plainly, that I cannot find any rest for the sole of my foot but upon this rock only. I...
Side xix - It must be confessed, that the claim to a miraculous power was universally asserted and believed in all Christian countries, and in all ages of the church till the time of the Reformation : for Ecclesiastical History makes no difference between one age and another, but carries on the succession of its miracles, as of all other common events, through all of them indifferently to that memorable period.
Side v - The whole which the wit of man can possibly discover either of the ways or will of the Creator, must be acquired . . not by imagining vainly within ourselves what may be proper or improper for Him to do, but by looking abroad and contemof nature.
Side x - ... churches, so the use and exercise of them began gradually to decline ; and, as soon as Christianity had gained an establishment in every quarter of the known world, that they were finally •withdrawn, and the gospel left to make the rest of its way by its own genuine strength, and the natural force of those divine graces with which it was so richly stored...
Side 138 - ... 10,000 bunches ; each bunch, 10,000 grapes; and each grape squeezed shall yield twenty-five measures of wine ; and when any of the saints shall go to pluck a bunch ; another bunch will cry out, I am a better, take me, and bless the Lord through me. In like manner a grain of wheat sown shall bear 10,000 stalks ; each stalk, 10,000 grains ; and each grain 10,000 pounds of the finest flour ; and so all other fruits, seeds and herbs in the same proportion, &c.