The Connection Between the Sacred Writings and the Literature of Jewish and Heathen Authors: Particulary that of the Classical Ages, Illustrated, Principally with a View to Evidence in Confimation of the Truth of Revealed Religion, Volume 1 |
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Page 120
The simple and sublime principle of natural religion , the existence of a Supreme
Being , seems to have been among the first and most universal convictions of the
human mind . The assurance originally derived from that disclosure of himself ...
The simple and sublime principle of natural religion , the existence of a Supreme
Being , seems to have been among the first and most universal convictions of the
human mind . The assurance originally derived from that disclosure of himself ...
Page 121
The corruption , however , of human nature , and its disposition to yield to
impressions from sensible objects and to the illusions of fancy , constantly
subjected the mind to the influence of error , and led it to mingle false
Inrehensions with the ...
The corruption , however , of human nature , and its disposition to yield to
impressions from sensible objects and to the illusions of fancy , constantly
subjected the mind to the influence of error , and led it to mingle false
Inrehensions with the ...
Page 165
From a general view of these statements , with respect to the Heathen manners ,
there is but too abundant proof to demonstrate the corruption of human nature ,
and the insufficiency of human reason to devise a remedy . The law of nature ...
From a general view of these statements , with respect to the Heathen manners ,
there is but too abundant proof to demonstrate the corruption of human nature ,
and the insufficiency of human reason to devise a remedy . The law of nature ...
Page 166
The prophane , are scarcely less forcible than the sacred descriptions , tending
equally to shew that the human heart was prone to all evil . The history of
mankind is too often a detail of crimes ; but the most striking circumstance in the
character ...
The prophane , are scarcely less forcible than the sacred descriptions , tending
equally to shew that the human heart was prone to all evil . The history of
mankind is too often a detail of crimes ; but the most striking circumstance in the
character ...
Page 260
The equivocal answers which they delilivered , whether dictated by the caution of
human policy , or by the contrivance of superior beings , whose knowledge of
futurity may be as limited as our own , but whose foresight may be more extended
...
The equivocal answers which they delilivered , whether dictated by the caution of
human policy , or by the contrivance of superior beings , whose knowledge of
futurity may be as limited as our own , but whose foresight may be more extended
...
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Page 192 - I girded thee, though thou hast not known me : That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness : I make peace, and create evil : I the LORD do all these things.
Page 191 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight ; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.
Page 327 - For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved : but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Page 191 - And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, And hidden riches of secret places, That thou mayest know that I, the Lord, Which call thee by thy name, Am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, And Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Page 191 - I will raise up the decayed places thereof ; that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers : that saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure : even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 181 - Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine; He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes : His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.
Page 200 - I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Page 80 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Page 56 - And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Page 121 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
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| Title | The Connection Between the Sacred Writings and the Literature of Jewish and Heathen Authors: Particulary that of the Classical Ages, Illustrated, Principally with a View to Evidence in Confimation of the Truth of Revealed Religion, Volume 1 Volume 1 of The Connection Between the Sacred Writings and the Literature of Jewish and Heathen Authors, Robert Gray The Connection Between the Sacred Writings and the Literature of Jewish and Heathen Authors: Particulary that of the Classical Ages, Illustrated, Principally with a View to Evidence in Confimation of the Truth of Revealed Religion, Robert Gray |
| Author | Robert Gray |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | F. C. and J. Rivington, 1819 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2005 |
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