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... instruction , in Divine things , given to mankind , at various periods , is enquired into ; and the influence of that instruction , on their religious cus- toms and opinions , traced . Those opinions have been so various , and the modes ...
... instruction , in Divine things , given to mankind , at various periods , is enquired into ; and the influence of that instruction , on their religious cus- toms and opinions , traced . Those opinions have been so various , and the modes ...
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... instruction by which these revelations were illustrated . The First Principles , so obtained , are then applied to the several great branches into which the history of religion and superstition naturally divides itself ; and the proof ...
... instruction by which these revelations were illustrated . The First Principles , so obtained , are then applied to the several great branches into which the history of religion and superstition naturally divides itself ; and the proof ...
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... instruction and of illustration , which , as we shall afterwards find , was peculiarly suited to the condition of the world , while the promises concerning the Messiah were entirely of a prospective nature . Let us here , too , for a ...
... instruction and of illustration , which , as we shall afterwards find , was peculiarly suited to the condition of the world , while the promises concerning the Messiah were entirely of a prospective nature . Let us here , too , for a ...
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... afterwards , when a closer examination into the mode of instruction prevalent in the early ages of the world , shall have better prepared our readers for accompanying us in such investigations . All that we wish THE CREATION . 15.
... afterwards , when a closer examination into the mode of instruction prevalent in the early ages of the world , shall have better prepared our readers for accompanying us in such investigations . All that we wish THE CREATION . 15.
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... instruction , in matters which could never be proved by abstract reasoning so well as by parable . For this purpose , it seems only necessary to notice generally , the classes of illustration which appear to have been provided for , in ...
... instruction , in matters which could never be proved by abstract reasoning so well as by parable . For this purpose , it seems only necessary to notice generally , the classes of illustration which appear to have been provided for , in ...
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Page 204 - Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 338 - Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord ; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you : whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Page 303 - 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 215 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people According to the number of the children of Israel : For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Page 258 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 341 - And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
Page 166 - For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Page 121 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 233 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary ? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 232 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.