The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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Page 137
... churches in the days of the apostles -the testimony of a whole nation of enemies , and that signified in a way the most expressive , even by their silence on the subject of the christian miracles , those best vouchers for a faith which ...
... churches in the days of the apostles -the testimony of a whole nation of enemies , and that signified in a way the most expressive , even by their silence on the subject of the christian miracles , those best vouchers for a faith which ...
Page 159
... Church their immediate successors in the office of presiding over the discipline and instruction of the numerous schools which they had established , this would have given a secular complexion to the argument , which , we think , would ...
... Church their immediate successors in the office of presiding over the discipline and instruction of the numerous schools which they had established , this would have given a secular complexion to the argument , which , we think , would ...
Page 166
... Church , and had his epistle not been admitted into the canon of Scripture , this testimony of his would have had a place in the catalogue , and been counted peculiarly valuable , both for its precision and its antiquity . There is ...
... Church , and had his epistle not been admitted into the canon of Scripture , this testimony of his would have had a place in the catalogue , and been counted peculiarly valuable , both for its precision and its antiquity . There is ...
Page 167
... Church are in reference to the original writers of the New Testament . In contradiction to every approved principle , we prefer the distant and the later testimony , to the testimony of writers , who carry as much evidence and ...
... Church are in reference to the original writers of the New Testament . In contradiction to every approved principle , we prefer the distant and the later testimony , to the testimony of writers , who carry as much evidence and ...
Page 168
... church - in the total inability of the bitterest adversaries of our religion to impeach its credibility - in the genuine cha- racters of honesty and fairness which it carries on the very face of it ; that in these , and in every thing ...
... church - in the total inability of the bitterest adversaries of our religion to impeach its credibility - in the genuine cha- racters of honesty and fairness which it carries on the very face of it ; that in these , and in every thing ...
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