The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Or, the Immortality of the Human Soul, Prov'd from Scripture & Reason. In Two Discourses. ... By Lawrence Smith, ...Thomas Speed, 1703 - 173 pages |
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... lefs Believing Perfons than were the very Heathen , who ac- knowledged the Soul's Immortality ? Or does this , being an Object of Heathen Belief , render it ever the less a found and certain Truth ? Ra- ther does not the univerfal ...
... lefs Believing Perfons than were the very Heathen , who ac- knowledged the Soul's Immortality ? Or does this , being an Object of Heathen Belief , render it ever the less a found and certain Truth ? Ra- ther does not the univerfal ...
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... lefs Infidelity , is every whit as much to be con- demned for an irrational Act , as is a groundless or over - forward Credulity . If we will not reft fatisfied with a certainty of Faith fufficient to take a 4 awar 1 away all reafonable ...
... lefs Infidelity , is every whit as much to be con- demned for an irrational Act , as is a groundless or over - forward Credulity . If we will not reft fatisfied with a certainty of Faith fufficient to take a 4 awar 1 away all reafonable ...
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... lefs poffeffed with upon the commiffion of any wilful and heinous Crime , does evidently appear an In- ftinct or natural Anticipation in Mankind , directly respecting a future State , and moft powerfully in- ferring its Existence . For ...
... lefs poffeffed with upon the commiffion of any wilful and heinous Crime , does evidently appear an In- ftinct or natural Anticipation in Mankind , directly respecting a future State , and moft powerfully in- ferring its Existence . For ...
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... lefs civilized People have equally had this Perfwafion of the perpetual Duration of their Souls . Now , whence had Men this fo general and univerfal , fo firm and lafting , ftedfaft and un- alterable Belief , but either had the Notion ...
... lefs civilized People have equally had this Perfwafion of the perpetual Duration of their Souls . Now , whence had Men this fo general and univerfal , fo firm and lafting , ftedfaft and un- alterable Belief , but either had the Notion ...
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... lefs exprefs and plain , becaufe Allegorical Texts of both their Law and the Prophets , the Obfcuri- ties of which latter Divine Writings , viz . the Jewish Prophecies , cleared up more and more , the nearer was their Approach to the ...
... lefs exprefs and plain , becaufe Allegorical Texts of both their Law and the Prophets , the Obfcuri- ties of which latter Divine Writings , viz . the Jewish Prophecies , cleared up more and more , the nearer was their Approach to the ...
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Page 39 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day; and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Page 119 - ... impossible with thee; and that if thou wilt, thou canst even yet raise him up, and grant him a longer continuance amongst us : yet, forasmuch as in all appearance the time of his dissolution draweth near, so fit and prepare him, we beseech thee, against the hour of death, that after his departure hence in peace, and in thy favour, his soul may be received into thine everlasting kingdom, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thine only Son, our Lord and Saviour.
Page 119 - ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Page 103 - I exceedingly fear and quake :) but ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living GOD, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels...
Page 140 - ... according to the deeds done in the body, whether they have been good, or whether they have been evil.
Page 75 - We are confident, I fay, and willing rather to be abfent from the body, and to be prefent with the Lord.
Page 74 - They were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
Page 75 - For we know, (fays he) that if our " earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diffolved ; " we have a building of GOD, a houfe not made " with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 40 - THERE was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores ; and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table : moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores.
Page 119 - ... life in thy fear, and to thy glory : or elfe, give him grace fo to take thy vifitation, that, after this painful life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlafting ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.