 | Thomas Erskine - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 226
...profligate ; and to all it speaks precisely the same language. What then is this universal language ? It cannot be the language of metaphysical discussion,...substance some urgent motives for the performance of them ; Iwcause, if they are not of this description, they are of no use. What is the history of another... | |
 | Thomas Erskine - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...could be intelligible to few, and it could influence the characters of fewer. The principles whitfh it addresses ought evidently to be such as are in...substance some urgent motives for the performance of tfiem ; because, if they are not of this description, they are of no use. What is the history of another... | |
 | Thomas Erskine - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...danger, to produce alarm ; of refuge, to confer peace and joy ; and of eternal glory, to animate hope. 55 SECTION. III. THE reasonableness of a religion seems...the precepts, and to contain in their very substance sume urgent motives for the performance of them ; because, if they are not of this description, they... | |
 | 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...The object of Christianity is to bring the character of man into harmony with that of God." p. 49. " The reasonableness of a religion seems to me to consist...strong probability against the truth of that religion What is the history of another world to me, unless it have some intelligible relation to my duties... | |
 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 588
..."The object of Christianity is to bring the character of man into harmony with that of God." p. 49. "The reasonableness of a religion seems to me to consist...strong probability against the truth of that religion What is the history of another world to me, unless it have some intelligible relation to my duties... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...object of Christianity is to bring the character of man into harmony with that of God." — P. 49. " The reasonableness of a religion seems to me to consist...strong probability against the truth of that religion What is the history of another world to me, unless it have some intelligible relation to my duties... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...object of Christianity is to bring the character of man into harmony with that of God." — P. 49. " The reasonableness of a religion seems to me to consist...of its moral obligations, there is evidently a very strongprobability against the truth of that religion What is the history of another world to me, unless... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...object of Christianity is to bring the character of man into harmony with that of God." — P. 49. " The reasonableness of a religion seems to me to consist...moral obligations, there is evidently a very strong •jirobability against tJie tntth of that religion What is the history of another world to me, unless... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 674
...these to the character which it recommends. If the belief of the doctrines has no tendency to train a disciple in a more exact and more willing discharge...strong probability against the truth of that religion. What is the history of another world to me unless it have some intelligible relation to my duties or... | |
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THE reasonableness of a religion seems to me to consist in there being a direct and natural connexion between a believing the doctrines which it inculcates, and a being formed by these to the character which it recommends. If the belief of the doctrines... 