A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. The Contemporary Review - Pagina 2791877Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| John Toland - 1761 - 278 pagini
...turn'd loofe to three fheets of paper without E 2 " a licen" a licenfer." In another place he fays, " A man " may be a heretic in the truth : and if he believes " only becaufe his paftor fays fo, or the aflembly " fo determins, without knowing any other... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 pagini
...waters flow not in a perpetual progreffion, they ficken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only becaule his paflor fays fo, or the aflembly fo determines, without knowing other reafon, though his... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pagini
...waters flow not in a perpetual progreffion, they ficken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only becaufe his paftor fays fo, or the aflembly fo determines, without knowing other reafon, though his... | |
| Newmann Hall - 1819 - 242 pagini
...candour of his inquiries, and the frank confession of his difficulties. It is a fine remark of Milton's, "A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastors say so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pagini
...waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his... | |
| 1826 - 548 pagini
...waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pagini
...hard to condemn a man for making money of that which he had given money for before.— Charron. MLXII. A man may be a heretic in the truth: and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reasons, though because... | |
| 1834 - 500 pagini
...falsity of any doctrine, but only with the spirit in which that doctrine is held or urged. Milton says " a man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, r hough his... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pagini
...waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his... | |
| John Arthur Roebuck - 1835 - 584 pagini
...waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believes things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without know* ing other... | |
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