Evidences of the Authenticity, Inspiration, and Canonical Authority of the Holy ScripturesPresbyterian board of publications, 1836 - 308 pages |
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... kind and degree of evi- dence as Christianity : and no other miracles are as well attested as those recorded in the Bible , 159 169 CHAPTER XIII . The Bible contains internal evidence that its origin is divine , .. 186 CHAPTER XIV ...
... kind and degree of evi- dence as Christianity : and no other miracles are as well attested as those recorded in the Bible , 159 169 CHAPTER XIII . The Bible contains internal evidence that its origin is divine , .. 186 CHAPTER XIV ...
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... kind ; and when we receive any thing as true , whatever may be the evidence on which it is founded , we must view the reception of it to be reasonable . Truth and reason are so intimately connected that they can never with propriety be ...
... kind ; and when we receive any thing as true , whatever may be the evidence on which it is founded , we must view the reception of it to be reasonable . Truth and reason are so intimately connected that they can never with propriety be ...
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... kind . Perhaps , however , I do not represent the case with perfect accuracy . Perhaps no man is chargeable with such an inconsistency , as to admit a thing to be contained in an undoubted revelation , and yet reject it . The exact ...
... kind . Perhaps , however , I do not represent the case with perfect accuracy . Perhaps no man is chargeable with such an inconsistency , as to admit a thing to be contained in an undoubted revelation , and yet reject it . The exact ...
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... kind of religion . It would be as difficult to find a whole nation without religion , as to find one destitute of speech . Some travellers , it is true , from superficial observation , have reported that some savage tribes had no ideas ...
... kind of religion . It would be as difficult to find a whole nation without religion , as to find one destitute of speech . Some travellers , it is true , from superficial observation , have reported that some savage tribes had no ideas ...
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... kind of expia- tion ? Would no impostors and false prophets arise to deceive the world again with their dreams , fancies , and pretended revelations ? They must have made but superficial observations on human nature , who think that ...
... kind of expia- tion ? Would no impostors and false prophets arise to deceive the world again with their dreams , fancies , and pretended revelations ? They must have made but superficial observations on human nature , who think that ...
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Page 230 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.
Page 237 - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me : And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
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 233 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you : searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
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.