History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, Volume 1

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D. Appleton and Company, 1888

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Página 381 - The visible church which is also catholic or universal under the gospel, (not confined to one nation as before under the law,) consists of all those throughout the world, that profess the true religion, together with their children ; and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.
Página 140 - It is true likewise, that the English in general, and indeed most of the men of learning in Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives
Página 128 - That there were such creatures as witches he made no doubt at all ; for, first, the scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Página 17 - The author defines his purpose as an attempt to trace that spirit which ' leads men on all occasions to subordinate dogmatic theology to the dictates of reason and of conscience, and, as a necessary consequence, to restrict its influence upon life'— which predisposes men, in history, to attribute all kinds of phenomena to natural rather than miraculous causes ; in theology, to esteem succeeding systems the expressions of the wants and aspirations of that religious sentiment which is planted in...
Página 133 - Atheism is begun in Sadducism, and those that dare not bluntly say there is no God, content themselves (for a fair step and introduction) to deny there are spirits or witches...
Página 126 - Has not this present Parliament A ledger to the devil sent, Fully impower'd to treat about Finding revolted witches out? And has not he, within a year, Hang'd threescore of them in one shire ? Some only for not being drown'd, And some for sitting above ground Whole days and nights, upon their breeches, And feeling pain, were hang'd for witches ; And some for putting knavish tricks...
Página 200 - ... stream of an almost boundless benevolence, and to include all the sections of humanity in the circle of an intense and efficacious sympathy; if it be true Christianity to destroy or weaken the barriers which had separated class from class and nation from nation, to free war from its harshest elements, and to make a consciousness of essential equality and of a genuine fraternity dominate over all accidental differences ; if it be, above all, true Christianity to cultivate a...
Página 315 - ... that Fishers, and men using the trade of living by fishing in the sea, may thereby the rather be set on work, and that by eating of fish much flesh shall be saved and increased...

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