[TRANSLATED BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.] CHAP. I.—OF HEATHEN REPENTANCE. Repentance, men understand, so far as nature is able, to be an emotion of the mind arising from disgust’ at some previously cherished worse sentiment: that kind of men I…
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Read more(BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.) CHAP. I.—GENERAL INTRODUCTION The Spirit of God, and the Word of God, and the Reason of God—Word of Reason, and Reason and Spirit of Word—Jesus Christ our Lord, namely, who is both the one and…
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Read more(TRANSLATED BY THE REV. R. E. WALLIS, PH.D.) Nobody, will blame me for placing here the touching history of these Martyrs. It illustrates the period of history we are now considering, and sheds light on the preceding treatise. I can…
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Read moreContents. The following are the contents of the first book of The Refutation of all Heresies. We propose to furnish an account of the tenets of natural philosophers, and who these are, as well as the tenets of moral philosophers,…
Read moreBook two and three have been lost. The contents of The Refutation, as they originally stood, seem to have been arranged thus: The first book (which we have) contained an account of the different schools of ancient philosophers; the second…
Read moreChapter I.-System of the Astrologers; Sidereal Influence; Configuration of the Stars. But in each zodiacal sign they call limits of the stars those in which each of the stars, from any one quarter to another, can exert the greatest amount…
Read moreContents. The following are the contents of the fifth book of the Refutation of all Heresies:1 - What the assertions are of the Naasseni, who style themselves Gnostics, and that they advance those opinions which the Philosophers of the Greeks…
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Ronald Reagan changed his view as a result of watching The Silent Scream – a movie he considered so powerful and convicting that he screened it at the White House.
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