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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... give them tor- ment . Voltaire may be considered as the leader of this band , and his humble imitators have been too numerous in every Christian country . But there is still another class of men , more distin- guished , as masters of ...
... give them tor- ment . Voltaire may be considered as the leader of this band , and his humble imitators have been too numerous in every Christian country . But there is still another class of men , more distin- guished , as masters of ...
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... give of sagacity in other matters , it is impossi- ble to communicate to them any ideas of morality , or any impressions of a religious nature . That these feelings are natural , and not adventitious is manifest . because they are found ...
... give of sagacity in other matters , it is impossi- ble to communicate to them any ideas of morality , or any impressions of a religious nature . That these feelings are natural , and not adventitious is manifest . because they are found ...
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... give it up willingly ; but if this cannot be done , then surely it is not reasonable to part with a certain good , without receiving an equivalent . This would be , as if some persons sailing on the ocean in a vessel which carried them ...
... give it up willingly ; but if this cannot be done , then surely it is not reasonable to part with a certain good , without receiving an equivalent . This would be , as if some persons sailing on the ocean in a vessel which carried them ...
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... give them expression . This will hold in regard to philosophers and men of learning , as well as others . Wherever a number of persons participate in the same feelings , there is a strong inclination to hold communion together ; and if ...
... give them expression . This will hold in regard to philosophers and men of learning , as well as others . Wherever a number of persons participate in the same feelings , there is a strong inclination to hold communion together ; and if ...
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... give no rational account of the wickedness of men and of their sufferings and death . The dark- ness and uncertainty resting on these subjects have led many who rejected the authority of the Bible , to adopt most absurd and atheistical ...
... give no rational account of the wickedness of men and of their sufferings and death . The dark- ness and uncertainty resting on these subjects have led many who rejected the authority of the Bible , to adopt most absurd and atheistical ...
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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...