An Essay on the Divine Authority of the New TestamentHudson and Goodwin, 1806 - 310 pages |
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... happiness which results from the Influ- ence of the Gospel in forming such char- acters · • X. There is every thing in the New Testament which a revelation from God may be ex- pected to contain CHAPTER II . OF THE EVIDENCE FOR THE ...
... happiness which results from the Influ- ence of the Gospel in forming such char- acters · • X. There is every thing in the New Testament which a revelation from God may be ex- pected to contain CHAPTER II . OF THE EVIDENCE FOR THE ...
Page xxv
... happiness which will never end . Will you permit a friend , though unknown , to solicit your attention to a book which was written with the godlike design of raising you to the perfection of your nature and to happi- ness , by ...
... happiness which will never end . Will you permit a friend , though unknown , to solicit your attention to a book which was written with the godlike design of raising you to the perfection of your nature and to happi- ness , by ...
Page xxvi
... happiness , if you refuse to examine . It is not desired that you should believe be- cause they believed ; but that you would ex- amine what they believed to be truth , and the most important truth . I entreat you to read the New ...
... happiness , if you refuse to examine . It is not desired that you should believe be- cause they believed ; but that you would ex- amine what they believed to be truth , and the most important truth . I entreat you to read the New ...
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... happiness in a fu- ture state depends upon the issue . Will it then be unsuitable , before you proceed , to offer up a supplication to the Father of Lights , from whom cometh down every good and perfect gift ; that he would illuminate ...
... happiness in a fu- ture state depends upon the issue . Will it then be unsuitable , before you proceed , to offer up a supplication to the Father of Lights , from whom cometh down every good and perfect gift ; that he would illuminate ...
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... happiness , if you refuse to examine . It is not desired that you should believe be- cause they believed ; but that you would ex- amine what they believed to be truth , and the most important truth . I entreat you to read the New ...
... happiness , if you refuse to examine . It is not desired that you should believe be- cause they believed ; but that you would ex- amine what they believed to be truth , and the most important truth . I entreat you to read the New ...
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Page 110 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 219 - They know not, neither will they understand ; they walk on in darkness : all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Page ix - And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 219 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 194 - And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he should live.
Page 7 - He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life : but he that believeth not the Son shall not see life ; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Page 126 - For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Page 24 - The death of Socrates peaceably philosophizing with his friends, appears the most agreeable that could be wished for ; that of Jesus, expiring in the midst of agonizing pains, abused, insulted and accused by a whole nation, is the most horrible that could be feared.
Page 24 - Sophroniscus to the son of Mary ! What an infinite disproportion there is between them ! Socrates, dying without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was any thing more than a vain sophist.
Page 147 - I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.