Evidences of the Authenticity, Inspiration, and Canonical Authority of the Holy ScripturesPresbyterian board of publications, 1836 - 308 pages |
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... principles , be discarded as unmeaning names ; for of all these there have been innumerable counter- feits , and concerning all of them an endless diversity of opinion . A second class , who profess to be men of reason , pay more ...
... principles , be discarded as unmeaning names ; for of all these there have been innumerable counter- feits , and concerning all of them an endless diversity of opinion . A second class , who profess to be men of reason , pay more ...
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... principle of religion from the minds of men , and to drive it from the earth , so that not one vestige of it may ... principles , and con- found their readers with paradoxes . The number of those who belong to this class is perhaps not ...
... principle of religion from the minds of men , and to drive it from the earth , so that not one vestige of it may ... principles , and con- found their readers with paradoxes . The number of those who belong to this class is perhaps not ...
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Archibald Alexander. sincere regard for truth which influences them ; for upon their principles , truth and reason are ... principle of receiving nothing as true but what their reason approves ; but these very men , with all their fair ...
Archibald Alexander. sincere regard for truth which influences them ; for upon their principles , truth and reason are ... principle of receiving nothing as true but what their reason approves ; but these very men , with all their fair ...
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... principles , a man may believe just as much , or as little as he pleases of what the Bible contains ; for it has been found , that no text is so stubborn as not to yield to some of the modes of treatment which have been adopted . This ...
... principles , a man may believe just as much , or as little as he pleases of what the Bible contains ; for it has been found , that no text is so stubborn as not to yield to some of the modes of treatment which have been adopted . This ...
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... principles of his understanding . " On the insidious nature of this attack , I shall not stop to remark , except to observe , that it may be taken as a specimen not only of Hume's method of treating Christianity , but of that of the ...
... principles of his understanding . " On the insidious nature of this attack , I shall not stop to remark , except to observe , that it may be taken as a specimen not only of Hume's method of treating Christianity , but of that of the ...
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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.