The Existence of Evil Spirits Proved: And Their Agency, Particularly in Relation to the Human Race, Explained and IllustratedJackson and Walford, 1843 - 525 pages |
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... facts , there is too much ground for the assertion , " that credulity is the foundation of all folly , " * at least in its various species . For assuredly there is no kind of folly or absurdity in either theory , be- lief , or practice ...
... facts , there is too much ground for the assertion , " that credulity is the foundation of all folly , " * at least in its various species . For assuredly there is no kind of folly or absurdity in either theory , be- lief , or practice ...
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... facts ? Still , perhaps , the verdict in the case just now supposed would be given , were the subject thoroughly investigated , against scepticism , and in favour of credulity . Some degree of the latter , or at least of a readi- ness ...
... facts ? Still , perhaps , the verdict in the case just now supposed would be given , were the subject thoroughly investigated , against scepticism , and in favour of credulity . Some degree of the latter , or at least of a readi- ness ...
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... facts . Reason and analogy will lead us to conclude analogy , and that the truth of the common doctrine respect- ing evil spirits , or fallen angels , is at the least possible , nay , even probable . Surely none will maintain , even if ...
... facts . Reason and analogy will lead us to conclude analogy , and that the truth of the common doctrine respect- ing evil spirits , or fallen angels , is at the least possible , nay , even probable . Surely none will maintain , even if ...
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... of rational creatures far superior to us : and that they must be , as we are , accountable to God , and may have been placed in a state of LECT . I. probation . Farther , facts and experience THE EXISTENCE OF EVIL SPIRITS . 11.
... of rational creatures far superior to us : and that they must be , as we are , accountable to God , and may have been placed in a state of LECT . I. probation . Farther , facts and experience THE EXISTENCE OF EVIL SPIRITS . 11.
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... facts and experience lead us to conclude that , like men , they may have fallen from their state of integrity . All creatures , how- ever great their powers , however pure and noble their natures , must be fallible or defectible . In ...
... facts and experience lead us to conclude that , like men , they may have fallen from their state of integrity . All creatures , how- ever great their powers , however pure and noble their natures , must be fallible or defectible . In ...
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Page 56 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath ; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 103 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming : Even him, whose coming is after the working of satan with all power and signs, and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish ; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 104 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 56 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: they shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 362 - I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Page 25 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Page 201 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord...
Page 231 - If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak...
Page 101 - For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination : he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Page 104 - ... though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.