 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 trang
...way to attain a true knowledge of Christianity, he replied, — " Let him study the holy scriptures, especially the New Testament. It has God for its author,...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." His health gradually declined, mid he foresaw his end with calm composure. On the day before he died,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 trang
...the holy scripture, especially the New Testament : Therein are contained the words of eternal life. Bishop Watson. § 121. A Prayer or Psalm. Most gracious Lord God, my merciful Father ; from my youth... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 588 trang
...the holy " scripture, especially the New Testament." Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of errour, for its matter. So that it is a wonder to me, how any one professing christianity, that would... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 trang
...be none chosen more descriptive or appropriate : " Therein are contained the words of eternal life : it has God for its author, Salvation for its end,...Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." The distinction also which he makes between Morality and the worldly term Prudence, is highly judicious,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1825 - 288 trang
...the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." A direction that was copied from his own practice, in the latter part of his life, and after his retirement... | |
 | William Malkin - 1825 - 504 trang
...the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament; therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter." Sir William Jones wrote at the end of his Bible, " I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy... | |
 | John Benjamin Seely - 1825 - 650 trang
...convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and the ruling providence of its great Author." — Gibbon. " It has God for its author, salvation for its end,...truth without any mixture of error for its matter." — Locke. " Mussulmans are already a sort of heterodox Christians, because they believe firmly the... | |
 | 1825 - 556 trang
...to render men virtuous and happy, even in this life only. The Scripture, on the other hand, ' with God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error, for its matter,' it commands with ¡minority, it speaks to the heart and to the understandmg, it reveals the Almighty... | |
 | 874 trang
...poetic, the most faithful, and the most pure and influential of all books. " It has," as Locke said, " God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its subject matter." He, therefore, who is entrusted with the education of the young, and doe* not most... | |
 | Catholic claims - 1826 - 322 trang
...it is demanded that we should surrender the free, stated, and general perusal of that volume which " has God for its author, salvation for its end, and...truth without any mixture of error for its matter." Where the eggs of the cockatrice are thus unsparingly deposited, can it be a cause of surprise that... | |
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Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. 
