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N Obody who has read history with any attention , but must have observed , that there have been certain dispositions which have reigned in certain periods of the world ; owing perhaps to some great genius , in whom that disposition has ...
N Obody who has read history with any attention , but must have observed , that there have been certain dispositions which have reigned in certain periods of the world ; owing perhaps to some great genius , in whom that disposition has ...
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... on which the truth of the whole is built , is better attested by the method in which they are composed , than they could possibly have been by a disposition , in which the order of time and place had been more carefully observed .
... on which the truth of the whole is built , is better attested by the method in which they are composed , than they could possibly have been by a disposition , in which the order of time and place had been more carefully observed .
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their being chosen by our Saviour ; that so , putting all the places that relate to them together , I might see what observations they would afford me . AFTER I had performed this task with all the care I could , from those parts of the ...
their being chosen by our Saviour ; that so , putting all the places that relate to them together , I might see what observations they would afford me . AFTER I had performed this task with all the care I could , from those parts of the ...
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In this I have distinguished Paul's five apoftolical journeys , which ought to make fo . many different sections of Paul's history , and is the only way by which the method observed by St. Luke in writing that part of it can appear .
In this I have distinguished Paul's five apoftolical journeys , which ought to make fo . many different sections of Paul's history , and is the only way by which the method observed by St. Luke in writing that part of it can appear .
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... others have done the like from the affiftance they have had from them ; yet several things perhaps have escaped their observation , which , by a more careful attention to this method , might have offered themselves to their notice .
... others have done the like from the affiftance they have had from them ; yet several things perhaps have escaped their observation , which , by a more careful attention to this method , might have offered themselves to their notice .
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Page 301 - He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith ? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Page 329 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part: but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 123 - ... Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Page 123 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 289 - For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
Page 102 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day : and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 234 - Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Page 297 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands.
Page 293 - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
Page 290 - ... my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.