The brothers' controversy: being a genuine correspondence between a clergyman of the Church of England and a layman of Unitarian opinions: chiefly on the questions how far belief is an act of the will; on the use of reason in the study of the Bible; and how far it is the duty of unlearned Christians to examine or implicitly abide by the religion of their educationB. Fellowes, 1836 - 224 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 87 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 67 - Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it ; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein...
Page 169 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Page 210 - And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Page 5 - For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
Page 218 - While we wrangle here in the dark, we are dying, and passing to the world that will decide all our controversies, and the safest passage thither is by peaceable holiness.
Page 186 - Creed, and that which is commonly called the Apostles' Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and believed: for they may be proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture.
Page 21 - Creed, this confession of our Christian faith, ' commonly called the Creed of St. Athanasius : the articles of which ought ' to be received and believed as being agreeable to the holy Scriptures. And ' the condemning clauses are to be understood as relating only to those who ' obstinately deny the substance of the Christian faith.
Page 80 - This is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom he hath sent.
Page 195 - for if he had not come in the flesh, how could we mortals seeing him have been preserved, when they, who behold the sun, which is to perish, and is the work of his hands, are unable to look directly against its rays.