The Christian's Instructor: Containing a Summary Explanation and Defence of the Doctrines and Duties of the Christian ReligionJ.W. Copeland, 1825 - 312 pages |
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... event so common , that unless an author can promise something entirely new , either in the mat ter of his publication , or in its arrangement , he is considered as making an unreasonable demand on the publick if he ex- pect his book to ...
... event so common , that unless an author can promise something entirely new , either in the mat ter of his publication , or in its arrangement , he is considered as making an unreasonable demand on the publick if he ex- pect his book to ...
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... event ? · 3. Does not this doctrine destroy free agency ? 4. If God has determined the existence of sin , is he not pleased with its nature ? 71 5. Does not this doctrine represent God as insincere , & c . 72 6. Does not this doctrine ...
... event ? · 3. Does not this doctrine destroy free agency ? 4. If God has determined the existence of sin , is he not pleased with its nature ? 71 5. Does not this doctrine represent God as insincere , & c . 72 6. Does not this doctrine ...
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... of intention , or exertion ; and the supposition , that an event can exert it . self , or operate to produce itself , before it has a being , is as great an absurdity as can be contained in no greater 14 NATURAL RELIGION .
... of intention , or exertion ; and the supposition , that an event can exert it . self , or operate to produce itself , before it has a being , is as great an absurdity as can be contained in no greater 14 NATURAL RELIGION .
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... events or things , is a con- tradiction in terms , as may be shown in various ways . ery individual in a series , is a unit ; but a series of units , how- ever long , may be numbered : it cannot , therefore , be infi- nite . Again ...
... events or things , is a con- tradiction in terms , as may be shown in various ways . ery individual in a series , is a unit ; but a series of units , how- ever long , may be numbered : it cannot , therefore , be infi- nite . Again ...
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... events which are recorded in the New Testa- ment , were not known scarcely beyond the limits of the neighbourhood where they occurred , till centuries after they took place . This impression , however , has nothing to sup- port it but ...
... events which are recorded in the New Testa- ment , were not known scarcely beyond the limits of the neighbourhood where they occurred , till centuries after they took place . This impression , however , has nothing to sup- port it but ...
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Page 35 - He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Page 248 - And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law : And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Page 251 - Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Page 207 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 90 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 258 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 307 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Page 261 - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 307 - For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God ; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate...
Page 90 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.