 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1842 - 840 pages
...preservation and confirmation of religious knowledge. Every other idi-a and ever}' other end that has been mixed with this — as the making of the church an engine, or even an ally of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or of diffusing influence; or regarding it as a support... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...Priestley on Government. DCLXXXVIII. A. Church Establishment. — The single end we ought to propose by it, is the preservation and communication of religious...the church an engine, or even an ally of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or diffusing influence ; or regarding it as a support... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 786 pages
...religious knowledge. Every other idea and every other end that has been mixed with this — as the mating of the church an engine, or even an ally of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or of diffusing influence; or regarding it as a support... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 446 pages
...enlightened advocates of the establishment. Dr. Paley, for example, has stated unequivocally, that to ' make of the church an engine or even an ally of the state, serves only to debase the institution ; ' and that ' the single end we ought to propose, by an ecclesiastical... | |
 | William Paley - 1850 - 628 pages
...propose by them is, " the preservation and communication of religious knowledge." Every other idei, and every other end, that have been mixed with this, as the making of the church an engine, or even en ally, of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or diffusing influence ; or regarding... | |
 | William Paley - 1851 - 766 pages
...the single end we ought to propose by them is, " the preservation and communication of re" ligious 's sake ; whether it be to the king, as supreme ;...that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-do "//.*/, of the state ; converting it in. to the means of strengthening or diffusing influence ; or... | |
 | 1852 - 978 pages
...establishment is no part of Christianity ; it is only the means of inculcating it." At page 430 he says : — " The making of the church an engine or even an ally of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or of diffusing influence ; or regarding it as a support... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1853 - 762 pages
...confirmation of religious knowledge. Every other idea and every other end that has been mixed with this—as the making of the church an engine, or even an ally of the state; converting it into the means of strengthening or of diffusing influence ; or regarding it as a support... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1855 - 440 pages
...or.religion generally, — or the civil welfare of a people. I. The institution itself. " The single end we ought to propose by religious establishments is,...the church an- engine, or even an ally, of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or diffusing influence ; or regarding it as a support... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1858 - 478 pages
...comparative excellency of different establishments, the single view under which we ought to consider them, is the preservation and communication of religious knowledge. Every other idea, and every other end, which have been mixed up with this, as the making the Church an engine or even ally of the State, converting... | |
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