Evidences of the Authenticity, Inspiration, and Canonical Authority of the Holy ScripturesPresbyterian board of publications, 1836 - 308 pages |
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... means by which he can form a judgment on any subject , or assent to any truth ; and it would be no more absurd to talk of seeing without eyes , tnan of knowing any thing without reason . It is therefore a great mistake to suppose that ...
... means by which he can form a judgment on any subject , or assent to any truth ; and it would be no more absurd to talk of seeing without eyes , tnan of knowing any thing without reason . It is therefore a great mistake to suppose that ...
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... means of conviction within their reach , they remain firmly fixed in their infidelity ; and as long as they pursue this partial method of investigation , they must ever remain in the same darkness . A third class , who wish to be ...
... means of conviction within their reach , they remain firmly fixed in their infidelity ; and as long as they pursue this partial method of investigation , they must ever remain in the same darkness . A third class , who wish to be ...
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... means bear . This was a favourite topic with Morgan , Bolingbroke , Voltaire , and Hurne . The last mentioned author , in the close of his Essay on Miracles , used the following language : " Our most holy religion is founded on Faith ...
... means bear . This was a favourite topic with Morgan , Bolingbroke , Voltaire , and Hurne . The last mentioned author , in the close of his Essay on Miracles , used the following language : " Our most holy religion is founded on Faith ...
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... means of obtaining happiness in a future world ; for both these would be equally disregarded by those men who aim at the subversion of all religion . What I shall attempt , at present , is to state and establish the fact , that man is ...
... means of obtaining happiness in a future world ; for both these would be equally disregarded by those men who aim at the subversion of all religion . What I shall attempt , at present , is to state and establish the fact , that man is ...
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... means for laborious disquisitions . Who then would wish to dry up that sacred spring of knowledge which diffuses good maxims , brings thera before the eyes of every individual , and communi- cates to them that authoritative and popular ...
... means for laborious disquisitions . Who then would wish to dry up that sacred spring of knowledge which diffuses good maxims , brings thera before the eyes of every individual , and communi- cates to them that authoritative and popular ...
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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.