 | Ely Bates - 1806 - 445 strani
...represents a particular party in those times: " Of all Christian sects, this [viz. the independent] was the first, which, during its prosperity, as well...adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration ; and it is remarkable, that so reasonable a doctrine owed its origin, not to reasoning, but to the... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 544 strani
...which an enthusiast indulged himself, he was apt. by a natural train of thinking, to permit in others. Of all Christian sects this was the first, which,...adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration ; and it is remarkable that so reasonable a doctrine owed its origin, not to reasoning, but to the... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 544 strani
...which an enthusiast indulged himself, he was apt, by a natural train of thinking, to permit in others. Of all Christian sects • this was the first, which,...adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration ; and it is remarkable that so reaonable a doctrine owed its origin, not to reasoning, but to the height... | |
 | 1815 - 412 strani
...reason for an extraordinary remark of that acute historian Mr. -Hume. He says, of the independents, " Of all Christian sects, this was the first, which...adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration." At the time that Mr. Rohinson removed to Leyden, the celebrated Arminins was professor of divinity... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1816 - 228 strani
...which an enthusiast indulged himself, he was apt, by a natural train of thinking, to permit in others. Of all Christian sects, this was the first, which...adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration ; and it is remarkable, that so reasonable a doctrine owed its origin, not to reasoning, but to the... | |
 | 1818 - 826 strani
...punishment in religious matters. " Of all Christian sects, (says Mr. Hume,) that of the Independents was the first which, during its prosperity as well...adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration." * This was indeed an illustrious age, and the names of Milton, Selden, Sidney, Marvell, t Vane, Ludlow... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Elijah Parish - 1820 - 332 strani
...who, in other respects, speak of them with derision. Thus Mr. Hume is" constrained to confess, that, "Of all Christian sects, this was the first, which...adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration." His account of the Presbyterians is very different. "But nothing was attended with more universal scandal,... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1821 - 636 strani
...enthusiast indulged himf ' self, he was apt, by a natural train of thinking, to " permit in others. Of all Christian sects, this was " the first, which,...as " its adversity, always adopted the principle of tole" ration ; and, it is remarkable, that so reasonable a " doctrine owed its origin, not to reasoning,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 614 strani
...that this sublimation of fanaticism was attended by one most singular and unaccountable symptom. ' Of all Christian * sects, this was the first which, during its prosperity as well is ' its adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration.' This trifling point of difference,... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1822 - 616 strani
...distasteful ; * In regard to whom, it is particularly worth while to remember Hume's admission, that " of all Christian sects, this was the first, which,...adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration." Popery, episcopacy, and presbyterianism, had equally distinguished themselves, by seeking their individual... | |
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Of all Christian sects this was the first, which, during its prosperity as well as its adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration... 
