Evidences of the Authenticity, Inspiration, and Canonical Authority of the Holy ScripturesPresbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, 1836 - 311 pages |
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... would soon grow up among us , were it not for the salutary influence of Christianity . Our fore- fathers , before they became Christians , were in the same degraded and wretched situation . And shall we curse 20 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
... would soon grow up among us , were it not for the salutary influence of Christianity . Our fore- fathers , before they became Christians , were in the same degraded and wretched situation . And shall we curse 20 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
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... fathers escaped ? It is a truth which should be proclaimed every where on the house tops , that it is the BIBLE which has delivered us from the horrid dominion of superstition , and it is the BIBLE which must prevent its return ...
... fathers escaped ? It is a truth which should be proclaimed every where on the house tops , that it is the BIBLE which has delivered us from the horrid dominion of superstition , and it is the BIBLE which must prevent its return ...
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... Fathers spoken of as a fact universally be- lieved among Christians , and contradicted by nobody . And we must not suppose that in the first ages of Christianity there was little care or discrimination exercised , in ascertaining the ...
... Fathers spoken of as a fact universally be- lieved among Christians , and contradicted by nobody . And we must not suppose that in the first ages of Christianity there was little care or discrimination exercised , in ascertaining the ...
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... Fathers , he composed his gospel . Luke was chosen by the churches in Asia to accompany Paul in his labours , and was almost constantly with him until his first imprisonment at Rome ; at which time his history of 104 EVIDENCES OF ...
... Fathers , he composed his gospel . Luke was chosen by the churches in Asia to accompany Paul in his labours , and was almost constantly with him until his first imprisonment at Rome ; at which time his history of 104 EVIDENCES OF ...
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... fathers— IRENEUS and TERTULLIAN , who both lived at the close of the second , and beginning of the third cen- tury , will be sufficient to show , beyond all controver- sy , how extensively the Christian religion prevailed in their 122 ...
... fathers— IRENEUS and TERTULLIAN , who both lived at the close of the second , and beginning of the third cen- tury , will be sufficient to show , beyond all controver- sy , how extensively the Christian religion prevailed in their 122 ...
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Page 231 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 213 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 230 - O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Page 67 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 75 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...
Page 230 - Then opened h'e their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures ; and said unto them ; Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 165 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people.
Page 231 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken.
Page 230 - Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father : there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me.
Page 231 - But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him : that the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord who hath believed our report ? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed...