Observations on the increase of infidelity. Volney1797 |
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الصفحة 98 - I have glorified thee on the earth : I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
الصفحة xii - Father, and the inexhaustible source of all happiness and perfection. Here self-interest, benevolence, and piety, all concur to move and exalt our affections. How happy in himself, how benevolent to others, and how thankful to God, ought that man to be, who believes both himself and others born to an infinite expectation! Since God has bid us rejoice, what can make us sorrowful?
الصفحة xiii - ... be, who believes both himself and others born to an infinite expectation ! Since God has bid us rejoice, what can make us sorrowful ? Since he has created us for happiness, what misery can we fear ? If we be really intended for ultimate unlimited happiness, it is no matter to a truly resigned person, when, or where, or how. Nay, could any of us fully conceive, and be duly influenced by, this glorious expectation, this infinite balance in our favour, it would be sufficient to deprive all present...
الصفحة xii - I HAVE now gone through with my Observations on the Frame, Duty, and Expectations of Man, finishing them with the doctrine of ultimate unlimited happiness to all. This doctrine, if it be true, ought at once to dispel all gloominess, anxiety, and sorrow, from our hearts ; and raise them to the highest pitch of love, adoration, and gratitude towards God, our most bountiful Creator, and merciful Father, and the inexhaustible source of all happiness and perfection.
الصفحة 98 - Neither pray I for these alone ; but for them also which shall believe on me through their word : that they may all be one ; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
الصفحة 136 - Like to other animals, without experience of the past, without foresight of the future, he wandered in the bosom of the forest, guided only and governed by the affections of his nature. By the pain of hunger, he was led to seek food and provide for his subsistence ; by the inclemency of the air, he was urged to cover his body, and he made him clothes ; by the attraction of a powerful pleasure, he approached a being like himself, and he perpetuated his kind.
الصفحة 98 - thefe things I fpeak in the world, that " they might have my joy fulfilled in " themfelves. " i£. I have given them thy word ; *' and the world hath hated them, be" caufe " caufe they are not of the world, even as
الصفحة 120 - But fanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an anfwer to every man that afketh you a reafon of the hope that is in you, with meeknefs and fear...
الصفحة 10 - If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but becaufe ye are not of the world, but I have chofenyou out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
الصفحة 85 - Frenchman seeming desirous to know •what religion I was of, I told him by an interpreter, that I was one called a Quaker, or Trembler, and that our principle was to do good to all men, and not to hurt any man, according to Christ's doctrine, Not to render evil for evil, but to overcome evil with good.