Remarks on the First Part of a Book Entitled, the Age of Reason: Addressed to Thomas Paine, Its AuthorS. King, 1831 - 119 páginas |
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Remarks, on the First Part of a Book, Entitled "The Age of Reason ... Samuel Drew Vista completa - 1820 |
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abstracted absurdity action Adam admitted Age of Reason appears argument assertion attributes authenticity Author believe Bible call any thing cause charge Christian system communication conceive connexion consequently contempt contradiction CORNWALL created a Deist creation Creator crucifixion dæmons Deism deny despise destroy Dioclesian discover Divine dominion doubt equally essences eternal evidence existence fact faith false falsehood favour follow founded gible guilty heaven hence human mind human race idea idolatry infer inhabitants intelligence introduction of moral Jesus Christ knowledge mankind manner of dying mercy miracles moral duty moral evil moral justice moral truth moral world motion mutability mystery nature necessarily never observation Old Testament Omnipotence open sources opiate paltry philosopher poet predictions present principles produce profaneness of manners prophecy prophets proportion as infidelity prove Psalm racter rational reject render sacred Satan sensible proof Testament THOMAS PAINE thors thou tion universe whole witness word
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Página 13 - The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and strangers to the morality contained in the gospel, the marks of whose truth are so striking and inimitable that the inventor would be a more astonishing character than the hero.
Página 12 - I will confess to you," — this is a man who had no faith in Christianity at all, — "I will confess to you that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gospel hath its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction ; how mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the Scriptures ! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man ? Is it possible that the sacred personage,...
Página 36 - And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Página 63 - Moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty, even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose justice to do this is to destroy the principle of its existence, which is the thing itself. It is then no longer justice. It is indiscriminate revenge.
Página 99 - ... to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to visit the sick and the prisoner, to comfort the sorrowful, and so to all others...
Página 13 - Shall we suppose the evangelic history a mere fiction ? Indeed, my friend, it bears not the marks of fiction ; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ.
Página 13 - What presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies! How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation!
Página 69 - What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.
Página 48 - Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
Página 88 - ... said he saw it, it raises a question in the mind very easily decided, which is, is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time; it is, therefore, at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.