An Apology for the Bible: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a Book Entitled The Age of Reason, Part the Second, Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous TheologyMessrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. Jones, J. Rice, H. Fitzpatrick, N. Kelly, and G. Folingsby, 1796 - 146 pages |
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... thou that judgeft another man's fervant ? To his own master he standeth or falleth . " - I think that you are in an error ; but whether that error be to you a vincible or an invincible error , I prefume not to de- termine . I know ...
... thou that judgeft another man's fervant ? To his own master he standeth or falleth . " - I think that you are in an error ; but whether that error be to you a vincible or an invincible error , I prefume not to de- termine . I know ...
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... Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn ; " and that this might not escape ob- fervation , they have noted it in the table of con- tents at the head of the chapter , though it is only a fingle verfe of lefs than two ...
... Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn ; " and that this might not escape ob- fervation , they have noted it in the table of con- tents at the head of the chapter , though it is only a fingle verfe of lefs than two ...
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... thou child of the devil , thou enemy of all righteousness , wilt thou not ceafe to pervert the right ways of the Lord ? " I did not , when I began thefe letters , think that I. fhould have been moved to this feverity of rebuke , by any ...
... thou child of the devil , thou enemy of all righteousness , wilt thou not ceafe to pervert the right ways of the Lord ? " I did not , when I began thefe letters , think that I. fhould have been moved to this feverity of rebuke , by any ...
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... thou fpakeft by thy fervant Mofes in the day when thou didft command him to write thy law . I think it unneceffary to make any obfervation on what you fay relative to the book of Judges ; but I cannot pass unnoticed your cenfure of the ...
... thou fpakeft by thy fervant Mofes in the day when thou didft command him to write thy law . I think it unneceffary to make any obfervation on what you fay relative to the book of Judges ; but I cannot pass unnoticed your cenfure of the ...
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... thou not . ” — These are the three first proverbs in So- lomon's " jeft book ; " if you read it through , it may not make you merry ; I hope it will make you wife ; that it will teach you , at leaft , the beginning of wif- dom -- the ...
... thou not . ” — These are the three first proverbs in So- lomon's " jeft book ; " if you read it through , it may not make you merry ; I hope it will make you wife ; that it will teach you , at leaft , the beginning of wif- dom -- the ...
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Page 112 - Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Page 106 - Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him; and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 83 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 95 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 107 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Page 18 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Page 99 - It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. 11. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Page 70 - And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 18 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 13 - A genuine book is that which was written by the person whose name it bears, as the author of it. An authentic book is that which relates matters of fact, as they really happened. A book may be genuine without being authentic ; and a book may be authentic, without being genuine.