The Evidences of Christianity: Stated in a Popular and Practical Manner, in a Course of Lectures, on the Authenticity, Credibility, Divine Authority, and Inspiration of the New Testament, Delivered in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Islington, Volume 2Crocker and Brewster, 1830 |
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... follow the former , and are subsidiary to them . Our Lord and his apostles placed Christianity on this foot- ing . They came with the most undoubted miraculous works , and claimed at once the obedience of mankind ; and afterwards , they ...
... follow the former , and are subsidiary to them . Our Lord and his apostles placed Christianity on this foot- ing . They came with the most undoubted miraculous works , and claimed at once the obedience of mankind ; and afterwards , they ...
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... follows what he considers to be good , rather than what he is merely convinced to be true . The internal evidences , therefore , are amongst the chief inducements to faith in every age . It is indeed an unspeak- able act of divine ...
... follows what he considers to be good , rather than what he is merely convinced to be true . The internal evidences , therefore , are amongst the chief inducements to faith in every age . It is indeed an unspeak- able act of divine ...
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... follows her directions , as those of a friend , and the perturbation and anxieties of his mind about religious truth ... follow him without distrust , till he is extricated from the labyrinth of error and sin . II . But Christianity is ...
... follows her directions , as those of a friend , and the perturbation and anxieties of his mind about religious truth ... follow him without distrust , till he is extricated from the labyrinth of error and sin . II . But Christianity is ...
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... follow the prevalent course of his desires and conduct ! What so great as man ! How exalted the dignity of his nature above the inferior animals ! What a gift is reason ! What a distinction , speech ! What a thirst he has for knowledge ...
... follow the prevalent course of his desires and conduct ! What so great as man ! How exalted the dignity of his nature above the inferior animals ! What a gift is reason ! What a distinction , speech ! What a thirst he has for knowledge ...
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... follow the bright prospects open- ed before him . Invitations , warnings , calls to repentance , denunciations against pride and unbelief , proposals of re- conciliation , are addressed to him . He is told that his state hereafter is to ...
... follow the bright prospects open- ed before him . Invitations , warnings , calls to repentance , denunciations against pride and unbelief , proposals of re- conciliation , are addressed to him . He is told that his state hereafter is to ...
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Page 210 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness : but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Page 76 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Page 338 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 57 - Father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary, of her substance...
Page 289 - If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son.
Page 201 - bloweth where it listeth, and we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth...
Page 76 - ... looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority, let no man despise thee.
Page 210 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 80 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 210 - Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.