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... convert savage nations to the Christian faith , by initiating them at once into the sublimest mysteries of that faith , may be attributed to their having adopted an order of teaching directly the reverse of that by which God prepared ...
... convert savage nations to the Christian faith , by initiating them at once into the sublimest mysteries of that faith , may be attributed to their having adopted an order of teaching directly the reverse of that by which God prepared ...
Page xii
... converted . to the faith , and the same day incorporated into the church by baptism . Would any man in his senses have written a narrative of such events as these at the very time when they are said to have happened , and in any one of ...
... converted . to the faith , and the same day incorporated into the church by baptism . Would any man in his senses have written a narrative of such events as these at the very time when they are said to have happened , and in any one of ...
Page xiv
... converted us to the faith a very short time before it was written and sent to us ; and he charges those to whom it was immediately sent , in the most solemn man- ner possible , that they should cause it to be read to every one of us ...
... converted us to the faith a very short time before it was written and sent to us ; and he charges those to whom it was immediately sent , in the most solemn man- ner possible , that they should cause it to be read to every one of us ...
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... converted to the Christian faith . The imprisonment of John had put an end to his ministry ; and therefore , to supply that loss , our Saviour himself began to preach the sum and substance of the gospel , faith , hope , and repentance ...
... converted to the Christian faith . The imprisonment of John had put an end to his ministry ; and therefore , to supply that loss , our Saviour himself began to preach the sum and substance of the gospel , faith , hope , and repentance ...
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... convert others by their preaching . Men , that were thus frank and open in their proceedings , could never designedly palm any falsehoods upon the world ; and if they were mistaken in some passages , it must be esteemed their misfortune ...
... convert others by their preaching . Men , that were thus frank and open in their proceedings , could never designedly palm any falsehoods upon the world ; and if they were mistaken in some passages , it must be esteemed their misfortune ...
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Page xii - And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Page 477 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say : — " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths :" for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page ix - What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 100 - And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
Page 107 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 265 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Page 373 - GOD, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds ; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high...
Page 472 - THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life ; (for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us...
Page 494 - 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 vii - Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah : Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.