Letters to the Jews: Inviting Them to an Amicable Discussion of the Evidences of Christianityauthor, 1787 - 56 pages |
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... such a manner as that the connexion gives the highest credibility to the whole . Such a history as yours could never have been received as true , in the age of Mofes itself , and in all following ages , if it had not been fo . Your ...
... such a manner as that the connexion gives the highest credibility to the whole . Such a history as yours could never have been received as true , in the age of Mofes itself , and in all following ages , if it had not been fo . Your ...
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... such as , if ever they be cured , it is only in a long course of time , as palfies , leprofies , lunacies , and cafes of blindness . He raised no less than three perfons from the dead , and two of them in the presence of a great number ...
... such as , if ever they be cured , it is only in a long course of time , as palfies , leprofies , lunacies , and cafes of blindness . He raised no less than three perfons from the dead , and two of them in the presence of a great number ...
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... such a man as Ma- homet , who pretended to no miracle befides the compofition of the Koran ( which it cer- tainly does not exceed the capacity of man to write ) and who propagated his religion by the fword . Chrift and the apostles ...
... such a man as Ma- homet , who pretended to no miracle befides the compofition of the Koran ( which it cer- tainly does not exceed the capacity of man to write ) and who propagated his religion by the fword . Chrift and the apostles ...
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... such events , and therefore is not fup- ported by their evidence , we fhould think ourselves at liberty to receive or reject it , according to its feparate evidence . Myfelf , and many other chriftians , are no believers in the ...
... such events , and therefore is not fup- ported by their evidence , we fhould think ourselves at liberty to receive or reject it , according to its feparate evidence . Myfelf , and many other chriftians , are no believers in the ...
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... such opinions ( borrowed from heathen philofo- phy ) as are utterly difcordant with its ge- nuine principles , especially that of the divi- nity of Chrift ; though the New Teftament no more represents him as a God , than the Old ...
... such opinions ( borrowed from heathen philofo- phy ) as are utterly difcordant with its ge- nuine principles , especially that of the divi- nity of Chrift ; though the New Teftament no more represents him as a God , than the Old ...
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Page 19 - For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Page 51 - Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Page 6 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
Page 19 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 17 - Let us go after other Gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that Prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Page 12 - And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it ; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
Page 31 - WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 42 - I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations whither the LORD thy GOD hath driven thee, and shalt return unto the LORD thy GOD, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day...
Page 29 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Page 5 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD ; and he counted it to him for righteousness.