A Collection of the Occasional Papers for the Year ..., Volume 1J. Knapton, J. Harrison and A. Dodd, 1716 - Church and state |
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... these three Things must be prov'd ; namely , That the Perfons fo acting have duly confidered and weigh'd the Nature and Ten- dency of them , and are willing to behave them- felves accordingly ; That in thofe Actions which are criminal ...
... these three Things must be prov'd ; namely , That the Perfons fo acting have duly confidered and weigh'd the Nature and Ten- dency of them , and are willing to behave them- felves accordingly ; That in thofe Actions which are criminal ...
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... These things even Clergymen too by their Doctrines promoted : Maintaining , That the King was not bound to obferve the Laws of the Realm concerning the Subjects Rights and Liberties ; That the Authority of the Parliament was not ...
... These things even Clergymen too by their Doctrines promoted : Maintaining , That the King was not bound to obferve the Laws of the Realm concerning the Subjects Rights and Liberties ; That the Authority of the Parliament was not ...
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... These Men went into their fide . So that all thefe Things being laid together , they must convince every Impartial Reader , That Religion was not the direct Caufe of the Civil War , but national Grievances and Op- preffions . The ...
... These Men went into their fide . So that all thefe Things being laid together , they must convince every Impartial Reader , That Religion was not the direct Caufe of the Civil War , but national Grievances and Op- preffions . The ...
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... Almighty God has fhewn by these things , and many more , He has determin'd to Honour , and to Profper him . " Now if Men will pretend to dispute Sub- miffion 1 miffion and Obedience after all this , their Wickedness and 6A SUPPLEMENT to ...
... Almighty God has fhewn by these things , and many more , He has determin'd to Honour , and to Profper him . " Now if Men will pretend to dispute Sub- miffion 1 miffion and Obedience after all this , their Wickedness and 6A SUPPLEMENT to ...
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... these Perfons forfeit the Protection and Pri- vileges of a Government they deny . But we hardly in an Age , hear of any Enthufi afm fo wild as this . The avow'd Atheist , and fuch as profefs themfelves to be under no religious ...
... these Perfons forfeit the Protection and Pri- vileges of a Government they deny . But we hardly in an Age , hear of any Enthufi afm fo wild as this . The avow'd Atheist , and fuch as profefs themfelves to be under no religious ...
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Page 3 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 9 - For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure ; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
Page 16 - 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.
Page 16 - 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...
Page 16 - 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...
Page 17 - Book, and require whether I believe it or no, and, seem it never so incomprehensible to human reason, I will subscribe it with hand and heart, as knowing no Demonstration can be stronger than this, God hath said so, therefore it is true.
Page 17 - ... man take mine from me. I will think no man the worse man, nor the worse Christian ; I will love no man the less for differing in opinion from me. And what measure I mete to others, I expect from them again. I am fully assured that God does not and therefore that...
Page 14 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 15 - ... coronation ; such a king to whom the allegiance of an English subject is due ; and hath set up another kind of dominion ; which is to all intents an abdication or abandoning of his legal title as fully as if it had been done by express words.
Page 19 - ... to the choice of any other, whether (prince or subject, to prescribe to him what faith or worship he shall embrace. For no man can, if he would, conform his faith to the dictates of another.