Hobart's Analysis of Bishop Butler's Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Consititution and Course of Nature. With Notes: Also Craufurd's Questions for Examination. Revised and Adapted to the Use of SchoolsHarper & brothers, 1848 - 228 páginas With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother. |
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2d Objection 37 cents 45 cents 90 cents actions admitted alogy analogy of nature answer appear applied argue argument arise assertion Author of nature Bishop Butler Butler capacities CHAP CHAPTER character Christ Christianity consequences of vice considered constitution of nature contrary course of nature creatures credibility degree dence difficulties discipline dispensation distributive justice Divine doubtful effects endued eral evidence of religion exercise existence experience external farther future God's habits happiness HISTORY implies improvement incredible instances Jews judges justice kind laws ligion living agents mankind manner means ment mind miracles moral government MOUNT ARARAT natural government NATURAL PHILOSOPHY natural religion necessary notion observations particular persons PHRENOLOGY practical precepts present presumption principle probability probation prophecy prove QUESTIONS-CHAPTER reason religious revelation rewards and punishments scheme Scripture sense sumption supposed supposition temporal temptation testimony things tion treatise trial truth ture Vide virtue virtuous vols whole
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Página 45 - I will mock when your fear cometh : when your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish cometh upon you ; then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer ; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me : for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord : they would none of my counsel ; they despised all my reproof: therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices.
Página 45 - Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Página 64 - And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Página 144 - Scripture; ie not whether it contains things different from what we should have expected from a wise, just, and good Being; for objections from hence have been now obviated; but whether it contains things plainly contradictory to wisdom, justice, or goodness; to what the light of nature teaches us of God.
Página 45 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded : but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Página 41 - An Author of nature being supposed, it is not so much a deduction of reason as a matter of experience, that we are thus under his government : under his government, in the same sense as we are under the government of civil magistrates. Because the annexing pleasure to some actions, and pain to others, in our power to do or forbear, and giving notice of this appointment beforehand to those whom it concerns, is the proper formal notion of government.
Página 128 - ... it is contrary to experience that a miracle should be true, but not contrary to experience that testimony should be false.
Página 138 - And thus we see that the only question concerning the truth of Christianity is, whether it be a real revelation, not whether it be attended with every circumstance which we should have looked for ; and concerning the authority of Scripture, whether it be what it claims to be, not whether it be a book of such sort, and so promulgated, as weak men are apt to fancy a book containing a divine revelation should.
Página 54 - ... no meaning at all to their words, or a meaning merely chimerical; from our natural sense of gratitude, which implies a distinction between merely being the instrument of good and intending it; from the like distinction every one makes between injury and mere harm, which Hobbes says is peculiar to mankind, and between injury and just punishment, a distinction plainly natural, prior to the consideration of human laws.
Página 70 - The constitution of human creatures, and indeed of all creatures which come under our notice, is such, as that they are capable of naturally becoming qualified for states of life, for which they were once wholly unqualified.