Evidences of the Authenticity, Inspiration, and Canonical Authority of the Holy ScripturesPresbyterian board of publications, 1836 - 308 pages |
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... learned , whether the influence of superstition or atheism is most baneful to society . Plutarch , Bacon , Bayle , Warburton , and others , have handled this subject in a learned and ingenious manner , and ar- rived at very different ...
... learned , whether the influence of superstition or atheism is most baneful to society . Plutarch , Bacon , Bayle , Warburton , and others , have handled this subject in a learned and ingenious manner , and ar- rived at very different ...
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... learned Gibbon has not , that I recollect , expressed his opinion on this subject explicitly ; but it may be fairly inferred , from many things in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman empire , that he deeply regretted the ...
... learned Gibbon has not , that I recollect , expressed his opinion on this subject explicitly ; but it may be fairly inferred , from many things in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman empire , that he deeply regretted the ...
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... learned and the great mass of labouring people , I am unable to say . But I know that such a system as this will , to a large majority of every community , be equivalent to no religion at all . The great body of the people must have ...
... learned and the great mass of labouring people , I am unable to say . But I know that such a system as this will , to a large majority of every community , be equivalent to no religion at all . The great body of the people must have ...
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... learned . The Natural Religion to which one may rise by the effects of a cultivated reason , is merely abstract and intellectual , and unfit for any people . It is revealed religion which points out all the truths that are useful to men ...
... learned . The Natural Religion to which one may rise by the effects of a cultivated reason , is merely abstract and intellectual , and unfit for any people . It is revealed religion which points out all the truths that are useful to men ...
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... learned as well as the rude and barbarous , have utterly failed in forming correct opinions on the most essential points of theo- logy and ethics , and have all fallen into the most absurd and degrading errors , and acquiesced in the ...
... learned as well as the rude and barbarous , have utterly failed in forming correct opinions on the most essential points of theo- logy and ethics , and have all fallen into the most absurd and degrading errors , and acquiesced in the ...
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Page 169 - For, I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness, in part, is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved...
Page 67 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 230 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.
Page 76 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...
Page 230 - Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father : there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me.
Page 232 - Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 107 - Christ not risen; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Page 290 - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called ; which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
Page 138 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 135 - And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you ; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other ; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.