Essays on the Most Important Subjects in Religion: With The Force of Truth;an Authentic Narrative1828 |
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... receiving the Bible as a divine reve- lation . Many of them have been noted for seri- ousness , erudition , penetration , and impartiality in judging of men and things . With much labour and patient investigation , they detected the ...
... receiving the Bible as a divine reve- lation . Many of them have been noted for seri- ousness , erudition , penetration , and impartiality in judging of men and things . With much labour and patient investigation , they detected the ...
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... received and of those who have rejected the scriptures ; and should com- pare the seriousness , learning , patient investigation of truth , solid judgment , holy lives , and compo- sure in a dying hour ( without unmanly terror or ...
... received and of those who have rejected the scriptures ; and should com- pare the seriousness , learning , patient investigation of truth , solid judgment , holy lives , and compo- sure in a dying hour ( without unmanly terror or ...
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... received him as the Messiah , it might have excited in others a suspicion , that it was a plan concerted for ag- grandizing the nation . But God himself was also pleased to add his own testimony to that of his servants ; conferring on ...
... received him as the Messiah , it might have excited in others a suspicion , that it was a plan concerted for ag- grandizing the nation . But God himself was also pleased to add his own testimony to that of his servants ; conferring on ...
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... receive the scriptures as the word of God , assent to some truths contained in them , not so much because they are revealed , as because they think that they may be proved by other arguments : whereas they reject , neglect , or explain ...
... receive the scriptures as the word of God , assent to some truths contained in them , not so much because they are revealed , as because they think that they may be proved by other arguments : whereas they reject , neglect , or explain ...
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... receive the illumination of Heaven , as the vitiat- ed eye cannot make proper use of the light of the He alone who inspired the scriptures can help us to understand them ; and if we search them in dependence on , and prayer for , his ...
... receive the illumination of Heaven , as the vitiat- ed eye cannot make proper use of the light of the He alone who inspired the scriptures can help us to understand them ; and if we search them in dependence on , and prayer for , his ...
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Page 95 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Page 76 - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children : how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Page 23 - My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Page 42 - That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Page 265 - Godliness is profitable for all things; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.
Page 28 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 70 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 42 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 223 - Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently...
Page 115 - And he said unto me; It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely ; he that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.