The intent and propriety of the Scripture miracles considered and explained, sermons preached in 1769,1770 and 1771 for the lect. founded by the hon. R. Boyle, Volume 11773 |
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... mind with equal force and luftre . And if one branch of them be now diminished , the other is proportionably increased : if miracles are ceased , prophecies are daily accomplished ; fo that the balance is ftill kept even ; and the fum ...
... mind with equal force and luftre . And if one branch of them be now diminished , the other is proportionably increased : if miracles are ceased , prophecies are daily accomplished ; fo that the balance is ftill kept even ; and the fum ...
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... minds will ftill cavil and find faults ; will ftill raise new objections , as fast as the old ones are cleared off . And hence it is , that the Apoftle is fo earnest with us , to be always ready to give a reafon of the hope , or faith ...
... minds will ftill cavil and find faults ; will ftill raise new objections , as fast as the old ones are cleared off . And hence it is , that the Apoftle is fo earnest with us , to be always ready to give a reafon of the hope , or faith ...
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... minds of their hearers , according to their weight and ftrength . And what was the confe- quence ? Why , by these means , Christianity made a quick and surprising progress ; spread itself with amazing rapidity over all the moft ...
... minds of their hearers , according to their weight and ftrength . And what was the confe- quence ? Why , by these means , Christianity made a quick and surprising progress ; spread itself with amazing rapidity over all the moft ...
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... mind , could help admiring a religion , that fhone forth with fo much amiableness ; and exhibited in its effects fuch a fulness of grace and truth ! " 2 . Now , in order to replace it on its proper bafis , and restore it to its ancient ...
... mind , could help admiring a religion , that fhone forth with fo much amiableness ; and exhibited in its effects fuch a fulness of grace and truth ! " 2 . Now , in order to replace it on its proper bafis , and restore it to its ancient ...
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... mind ; and to determine the point by her own judgment . And the refult was , as we might naturally expect , that , when the woman faw , " from the ferpent's experiment , " that the tree was good for food ; " and from her own ob ...
... mind ; and to determine the point by her own judgment . And the refult was , as we might naturally expect , that , when the woman faw , " from the ferpent's experiment , " that the tree was good for food ; " and from her own ob ...
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Page xiii - And they said go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower which the children of men builded.
Page 171 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page xii - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page xiv - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Page xii - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 216 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page xv - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 289 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Page 277 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 172 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.