The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb: With Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Band 1T. Cadell, 1787 |
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... truth , the civil and religious liberties of our country , and the improved education of the rising generation , without ftaying to count the coft , or to confider the difficulties which lay in the way of its exe- cution . In the ...
... truth , the civil and religious liberties of our country , and the improved education of the rising generation , without ftaying to count the coft , or to confider the difficulties which lay in the way of its exe- cution . In the ...
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... truth and im- provement . To have affected an excess of candour , would have been equally blam- able , as it could not have been maintained without without more important facrifices . If on the prefent , iv PREFACE .
... truth and im- provement . To have affected an excess of candour , would have been equally blam- able , as it could not have been maintained without without more important facrifices . If on the prefent , iv PREFACE .
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... truth and the common intereft of mankind , than at the barely being reminded of it . I will only add , that as I have not gone out of my way to feek inftances of defection from vir- tue , for the fake of detailing the difgrace of others ...
... truth and the common intereft of mankind , than at the barely being reminded of it . I will only add , that as I have not gone out of my way to feek inftances of defection from vir- tue , for the fake of detailing the difgrace of others ...
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... which I am no otherwife interested , than as the honour of my beloved friend , and the intereft of truth and of mankind are con- cerned . APRIL 17 , 1787 , D. SUBSCRIBER S. A. HIS Excellency the Hon . John Adams viii PREFACE .
... which I am no otherwife interested , than as the honour of my beloved friend , and the intereft of truth and of mankind are con- cerned . APRIL 17 , 1787 , D. SUBSCRIBER S. A. HIS Excellency the Hon . John Adams viii PREFACE .
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... , in his idea , by much the best demonstration of the existence and at- tribute of the deity . " Another opinion of Dr. Jebb's , which ftruck me as a moft manly and noble in- stance ftance of his reliance on the force of truth , ( 15 )
... , in his idea , by much the best demonstration of the existence and at- tribute of the deity . " Another opinion of Dr. Jebb's , which ftruck me as a moft manly and noble in- stance ftance of his reliance on the force of truth , ( 15 )
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 85 - ... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right...
Seite 28 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Seite 86 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of...
Seite 84 - ... established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time ; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves...
Seite 86 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Seite 84 - Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness...
Seite 147 - Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Seite 149 - The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.
Seite 85 - ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical ; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher, of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern...
Seite 107 - ... will judge * the world in righteoufnefs, by that man ' whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath ' given affurance unto all men, in that he * hath raifed him from the dead.