Tracts in Controversy with Dr. Priestley: Upon the Historical Question, of the Belief of the First Ages, in Our Lord's Divinity. Originally Published in the Years 1783, 1784, & 1786, Afterwards Revised and Augmented, with a Large Addition of Notes and Supplemental Disquisitions

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D. Allinson, 1821 - 520 pages
 

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Page 318 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word ; it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Page 28 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born* of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Page 210 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God and saying ; Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice ; Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Page 385 - I hold the memory of Calvin in high veneration ; his works have a place in my library ; and in the study of the Holy Scriptures he is one of the commentators I most frequently consult* — Bishop Hartley.
Page 368 - The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the good man of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household ? Therefore fear them not.
Page 309 - Pharaoh, and all his servants, and to all his land, — and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.
Page 117 - Testament is, for the most part, what may be called a standing sense ; that which will be the first to occur to common people of every country, and in every age...
Page 301 - Provided always, that no congregation, or assembly for religious worship, shall be permitted or allowed by this act, until the place of such meeting shall be certified to the bishop of the diocese, or to the archdeacon of that archdeaconry, or to the justices of the peace, at the general or quarter sessions...
Page 310 - And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
Page 301 - I AB do solemnly declare, in the Presence of Almighty God, that I am a Christian and a Protestant, and as such, that I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, as commonly received among Protestant Churches, do contain the revealed Will of God; and that I do receive the same as the Rule of my Doctrine and Practice.

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