Researches Antediluvian, Patriarchal and Historical: Concerning the Way in which Men First Acquired Their Knowledge of God and Religion, and as to what Were the Doctrines of the Churches of Adam and Noah, with an Account of the Long Night of Idolatry, which Followed and Darkened the Earth, and Also of the Means Designed by God for the Recovery and Extension of His Truths, and of Their Final Accomplishment by Jesus Christ |
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... tion of his Holy Spirit , by which men might be warned and guarded against moral evil , led into the way of moral good , and taught spiritually to understand both the laws and the doctrines now mentioned . These laws and doctrines ...
... tion of his Holy Spirit , by which men might be warned and guarded against moral evil , led into the way of moral good , and taught spiritually to understand both the laws and the doctrines now mentioned . These laws and doctrines ...
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... tion which arises here is what was the way of the Lord just spoken of ? The text says " to do justice and judgment . " But the words , " to do justice and judgment , " have so large a meaning , and imply so many duties , that no one law ...
... tion which arises here is what was the way of the Lord just spoken of ? The text says " to do justice and judgment . " But the words , " to do justice and judgment , " have so large a meaning , and imply so many duties , that no one law ...
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... tion . " I should have thought these observations suffi- cient on this part of the subject , but that I have taken for granted a circumstance , which , if not true , will at once annihilate the argument which I have been so long ...
... tion . " I should have thought these observations suffi- cient on this part of the subject , but that I have taken for granted a circumstance , which , if not true , will at once annihilate the argument which I have been so long ...
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... tion among the Israelites , it does not follow that there were not Judges among the different patri- archal tribes or families for the same purpose ; for how , without persons of this description could peace and order have been ...
... tion among the Israelites , it does not follow that there were not Judges among the different patri- archal tribes or families for the same purpose ; for how , without persons of this description could peace and order have been ...
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... tion of Sodom and Gomorrah ) that Job lived before the time of Abraham rather than that he lived after it . But the dialogue furnishes us with another argument , which leads us to the same conclusion , namely , that the age , in which ...
... tion of Sodom and Gomorrah ) that Job lived before the time of Abraham rather than that he lived after it . But the dialogue furnishes us with another argument , which leads us to the same conclusion , namely , that the age , in which ...
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Page 63 - And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.
Page 89 - This is that which the Lord hath said: 'Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord.' Bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Page 54 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Page 55 - Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Page 42 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 24 - My foot hath held his steps, His way have I kept, and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Page 79 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?