A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion:: Digested in Such Order as to Present to the Pious and Reflecting Mind, a Basis for the Superstructure of the Entire System of the Doctrines of the GospelDeare & Myer., 1815 - 543 pages |
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... ideas , -and the obvious structure of the universe . Both these modes of proof , which have been distinguished in the schools by scientific terms of discrimination , rest on one common principle , or necessary idea , that every thing ...
... ideas , -and the obvious structure of the universe . Both these modes of proof , which have been distinguished in the schools by scientific terms of discrimination , rest on one common principle , or necessary idea , that every thing ...
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... idea of an eternal succes- sion of events , each frail and imperfect , and all dependent , one upon another , involves too evident an absurdity to be admitted by the rational mind . We are obliged therefore to adopt the only alternative ...
... idea of an eternal succes- sion of events , each frail and imperfect , and all dependent , one upon another , involves too evident an absurdity to be admitted by the rational mind . We are obliged therefore to adopt the only alternative ...
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... ideas , although they do great credit to the ingenuity of that celebrated au- thor , can be comprehended only by a few reflecting men ; and the most speculative philosopher finds the effort to grasp them , exhaust the sensibility of the ...
... ideas , although they do great credit to the ingenuity of that celebrated au- thor , can be comprehended only by a few reflecting men ; and the most speculative philosopher finds the effort to grasp them , exhaust the sensibility of the ...
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... ideas . The concurrence of all nations , in the belief of the being of God , is a decisive proof , either , that it is a na- tive sentiment of the human heart arising necessarily from the constitution of our nature , and entitled to the ...
... ideas . The concurrence of all nations , in the belief of the being of God , is a decisive proof , either , that it is a na- tive sentiment of the human heart arising necessarily from the constitution of our nature , and entitled to the ...
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... ideas , requiring greater precision of thought , and a wider compass of reasoning , one man , or one nation , according to the advances which they have respectively made in the cultivation of science , may reasonably be supposed to have ...
... ideas , requiring greater precision of thought , and a wider compass of reasoning , one man , or one nation , according to the advances which they have respectively made in the cultivation of science , may reasonably be supposed to have ...
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Page 232 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Page 379 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 133 - And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee...
Page 156 - Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Page 474 - The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Page 166 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 382 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 231 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 371 - Behold my servant, whom I uphold ; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth ; I have put my spirit upon him : he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Page 141 - But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.