The Spirit of the Pilgrims, Volume 3Peirce and Williams, 1830 |
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... Bible is only a history of it - such a narrative respecting it , as honest , well meaning , but ignorant and prejudiced men have given us ; so that in reading it , we must make due allowances , and beware that we do not mistake the ...
... Bible is only a history of it - such a narrative respecting it , as honest , well meaning , but ignorant and prejudiced men have given us ; so that in reading it , we must make due allowances , and beware that we do not mistake the ...
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... Bible ; for the Bible is to him an acknowledged standard . He will admit the force of any passage , which he can be satisfied belongs to the Bible , and which can be made properly to bear on the subject . But in endeavoring to establish ...
... Bible ; for the Bible is to him an acknowledged standard . He will admit the force of any passage , which he can be satisfied belongs to the Bible , and which can be made properly to bear on the subject . But in endeavoring to establish ...
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... Bible ? The design of these remarks is to show , that all , who do not receive the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as a revelation from God - as of binding authority - as the stand- ard of their faith , and the rule of ...
... Bible ? The design of these remarks is to show , that all , who do not receive the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as a revelation from God - as of binding authority - as the stand- ard of their faith , and the rule of ...
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... Bible " as containing a revelation from God , " adds , " It is also to be regarded in another light , as consisting wholly of HUMAN COMPOSITIONS , like other writings of equal antiquity , the fair subjects of criticism , " & c . Another ...
... Bible " as containing a revelation from God , " adds , " It is also to be regarded in another light , as consisting wholly of HUMAN COMPOSITIONS , like other writings of equal antiquity , the fair subjects of criticism , " & c . Another ...
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... Bible , including the historical books of the Old Testament , was a revelation . " " The words of Christ were reported from memory by the evan- gelists , and not always with perfect accuracy . This is evident from the fact , that in ...
... Bible , including the historical books of the Old Testament , was a revelation . " " The words of Christ were reported from memory by the evan- gelists , and not always with perfect accuracy . This is evident from the fact , that in ...
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Page 286 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 449 - For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver, and an antichrist.
Page 321 - Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not. 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
Page 469 - If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Page 463 - Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings!
Page 178 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Page 285 - And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Page 559 - If those who have been wise to turn men to righteousness shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and as the stars forever and ever...
Page 248 - WE receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, * and do sign him with the sign of the cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the Devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end.
Page 36 - And as I was walking there, and looking up on the sky and clouds, there came into my mind so sweet a sense of the glorious majesty and grace of God, that I know not how to express. I seemed to see them both in a sweet conjunction ; majesty and meekness joined together ; it was a sweet, and gentle, and holy majesty; and also a majestic meekness; an awful sweetness; a high, and great, and holy gentleness.