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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... TION OF THE TEST TO WHICH MEN MAY BRING THE CHRISTIAN REVELATION.- PSALM XXXiv . 8 . The characters addressed described · 188 189 The DIRECTIONS ; study Christianity in THE BIBLE itself . 192 TRACE out in YOUR OWN HEART the truth of its ...
... TION OF THE TEST TO WHICH MEN MAY BRING THE CHRISTIAN REVELATION.- PSALM XXXiv . 8 . The characters addressed described · 188 189 The DIRECTIONS ; study Christianity in THE BIBLE itself . 192 TRACE out in YOUR OWN HEART the truth of its ...
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... TION TO THE OBVIOUS STATE AND WANTS OF MAN AS AN IGNORANT AND SINFUL CREATURE . Contrivance for the benefit of man , pervades the works of God in creation . The world was made for such a being as man , and no other . The order of the ...
... TION TO THE OBVIOUS STATE AND WANTS OF MAN AS AN IGNORANT AND SINFUL CREATURE . Contrivance for the benefit of man , pervades the works of God in creation . The world was made for such a being as man , and no other . The order of the ...
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... tion and anxieties of his mind about religious truth . immediately subside . A traveller who has lost his way amongst the snows of the Alps , doth not more rejoice when he 12 CHRISTIANITY SUITABLE TO THE [ LECT . XIV .
... tion and anxieties of his mind about religious truth . immediately subside . A traveller who has lost his way amongst the snows of the Alps , doth not more rejoice when he 12 CHRISTIANITY SUITABLE TO THE [ LECT . XIV .
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... TION , AND NO OTHER . 1. If the matter of Revelation be adapted to his ignorance and weakness , because it speaks with deci- sion and treats of the most important concerns ; it is also equally adapted to his perplexities and anxieties ...
... TION , AND NO OTHER . 1. If the matter of Revelation be adapted to his ignorance and weakness , because it speaks with deci- sion and treats of the most important concerns ; it is also equally adapted to his perplexities and anxieties ...
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... tion . So the Bible proves its claims to the confidence of men , by discovering all the secrets of their malady , opening to them the unobserved depths of their heart , and telling them the history of their contradictory feelings and ...
... tion . So the Bible proves its claims to the confidence of men , by discovering all the secrets of their malady , opening to them the unobserved depths of their heart , and telling them the history of their contradictory feelings and ...
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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.