An Essay on the Philosophical Evidence of Christianity: Or The Credibility Obtained to a Scriptural Revelation, from Its Coincidence with the Facts of NatureJohn Murray, 1827 - 314 pages |
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... inquiry is sa- tisfied on finding the concluded event coin- cident with the real and known effect . As , for instance , the rapid propagation of the gospel at its outset , is a known fact in its history ; -but , before we can apply this ...
... inquiry is sa- tisfied on finding the concluded event coin- cident with the real and known effect . As , for instance , the rapid propagation of the gospel at its outset , is a known fact in its history ; -but , before we can apply this ...
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... the Christian Revelation , might distinctly be placed before the view . An additional motive to this inquiry sug- gested itself in a conviction of the injustice of that prejudice , with which the admirable work of viii PREFACE .
... the Christian Revelation , might distinctly be placed before the view . An additional motive to this inquiry sug- gested itself in a conviction of the injustice of that prejudice , with which the admirable work of viii PREFACE .
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... inquiry here instituted into the grounds , nature , and importance , of the Evidence itself illustrated in that work , is intended to serve . The separate arrangement , adopted by Butler , of the arguments from the consti- tution and ...
... inquiry here instituted into the grounds , nature , and importance , of the Evidence itself illustrated in that work , is intended to serve . The separate arrangement , adopted by Butler , of the arguments from the consti- tution and ...
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... inquiry being , to observe in general WHATEVER IS , in that portion of God's creation which He has submitted to the ken of our present faculties , we are no further concerned with the moral qualities of the facts observed , than as they ...
... inquiry being , to observe in general WHATEVER IS , in that portion of God's creation which He has submitted to the ken of our present faculties , we are no further concerned with the moral qualities of the facts observed , than as they ...
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... inquiry . Heads of inquiry : -1 . The grounds of the credibility derived to a revelation from such a comparison . 2. The nature of it . 3. Its importance . 4. The consi- deration of objections to the employment of such an evidence . I ...
... inquiry . Heads of inquiry : -1 . The grounds of the credibility derived to a revelation from such a comparison . 2. The nature of it . 3. Its importance . 4. The consi- deration of objections to the employment of such an evidence . I ...
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Page 119 - Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Page 118 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm ; therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 151 - And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Page 41 - So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 75 - We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him. The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines ' that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it : and can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to him, who is not only the standard of perfection but of happiness ! ADDISON.
Page 37 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables ; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 37 - And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Page 199 - Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
Page 36 - And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judea a certain prophet, named Agabus. 11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
Page 74 - ... how high soever the station is of which he stands possessed at present, the inferior nature will, at length, mount up to it, and shine forth in the same degree of glory. 12. With what astonishment and veneration, may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources...