The Evidences of Christianity: Stated in a Popular and Practical Manner: In a Course of Lectures, Delivered in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Islington, in the Years 1827,8,9, and 30, Volume 2Stevens and Sons, 1832 |
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... feel its salutary effects , is another . The internal evidences are also more intelligible to the great mass of Christians . They can understand , indeed , sufficiently , as we have shown , the external evidences , When the case is laid ...
... feel its salutary effects , is another . The internal evidences are also more intelligible to the great mass of Christians . They can understand , indeed , sufficiently , as we have shown , the external evidences , When the case is laid ...
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... feel the internal evidences , demands only a sincere and lowly mind . The humblest peasant can discern , in the starry firmament , the marks of the wisdom and glory of God ; though the philosopher alone can demonstrate the laws of the ...
... feel the internal evidences , demands only a sincere and lowly mind . The humblest peasant can discern , in the starry firmament , the marks of the wisdom and glory of God ; though the philosopher alone can demonstrate the laws of the ...
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... feel that the revelation takes the becoming attitude of superiority and command ; and addresses you as an ignorant ... feeling that they " speak as those having authority , and not as the scribes . " 16 The great principles of natural or ...
... feel that the revelation takes the becoming attitude of superiority and command ; and addresses you as an ignorant ... feeling that they " speak as those having authority , and not as the scribes . " 16 The great principles of natural or ...
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... feels the ground firm under him . flies from human conjecture and the intricacies of op- posing systems , to repose in the authority of the Bible . Man , when his attention is awakened to the subject , knows in his inmost soul that he ...
... feels the ground firm under him . flies from human conjecture and the intricacies of op- posing systems , to repose in the authority of the Bible . Man , when his attention is awakened to the subject , knows in his inmost soul that he ...
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... feeling , a sentiment which elevates him , and which he cannot repress . Nothing satisfies his ambition but the esteem of ra- tional and intellectual beings . He burns with the love of glory ; he has an idea of a lost happiness which he ...
... feeling , a sentiment which elevates him , and which he cannot repress . Nothing satisfies his ambition but the esteem of ra- tional and intellectual beings . He burns with the love of glory ; he has an idea of a lost happiness which he ...
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Page 215 - 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 298 - 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 86 - And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well : he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Page 161 - All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Page 215 - 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 198 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness; all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Page 306 - For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God : for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Page 102 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother ; and she was a widow : and much people of the city was with her.
Page 310 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God.
Page 92 - When Jesus heard that, he said, this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.