The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing... The Freethinker's Magazine and Review of Theology, Politics, and Literature - Side 181851Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Robert Owen - 1829 - 568 sider
...effectually forwarded and assisted by the five following causes: 1. The inflexible, and if we may use Ilia expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians,...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses. 2. The doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1829 - 230 sider
...by him as sufficient to account for such a circumstance, are the following : 1. The inflexible and intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is...unsocial spirit, which, instead of inviting, had deterred tLe Gentiles from embracing the Law of Moses ; 2. The doctrine of a future life improved by every additional... | |
| James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1831 - 342 sider
...Gibbon's causes are inadequate to the effects assigned to them. His first cause is " the inflexible, and if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians." Now, to assign the intolerant zeal of the weaker party as a cause of success, savours somewhat of folly.... | |
| George Hill - 1833 - 604 sider
...providence of God. The five secondary causes enumerated by Mr. Gibbon are these, 1. " The inflexible and intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses." 2. " The doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight... | |
| John Henry Hopkins - 1833 - 194 sider
...These are, in his own words, ' first, the inflexible and intolejant zeal of the Christians, derived from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses. Secondly, the doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give... | |
| Robert Haldane - 1834 - 534 sider
...was most effectually forwarded and assisted by the five following causes : — 1st, The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses. 2d, The doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight... | |
| James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1841 - 336 sider
...Gibbon's causes are inadequate to the effects assigned to them. His first cause is " the inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians." Now, to assign the intolerant zeal of the weaker party as a cause of success, savours somewhat of folly.... | |
| 1835 - 602 sider
...principles than those you have thought proper to mention. Your first cause is, " the inflexible, and, if you may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the...deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses." — Yes, Sir, we are agreed that the zeal of the Christians was inflexible ; " neither death, nor life,... | |
| John Leland - 1837 - 784 sider
...growth of the Christian church. These he conjectures to have been the following : 1. The inflexible and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant...inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing the laws of Moses. 2. The doctrine of a future life improved by every additional circumstance which could... | |
| Robert Owen - 1839 - 556 sider
...that it was most effectually forwarded and assisted by the five following causes : 1. The inflexible, and if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal...deterred the gentiles from embracing the law of Moses. 2. The doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight... | |
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