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... probable , will be close and uniform , and will easily be perceived to result from the intention of the author , and from the plan and conduct of his work.- Where the letters are fabricated from the history , which is the second case ...
... probable , will be close and uniform , and will easily be perceived to result from the intention of the author , and from the plan and conduct of his work.- Where the letters are fabricated from the history , which is the second case ...
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... probable , meet with an occasion of alluding to the circumstances of his life at all ; he might , or he might not ; the chance on either side is nearly equal . This is the situation of the catholic epis tle . Although , therefore , the ...
... probable , meet with an occasion of alluding to the circumstances of his life at all ; he might , or he might not ; the chance on either side is nearly equal . This is the situation of the catholic epis tle . Although , therefore , the ...
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... probable ; but the degree of probability by which different instances are supported , is undoubtedly very different . If the reader , therefore , meets with a number which contains . an instance that appears to him unsatisfactory , or ...
... probable ; but the degree of probability by which different instances are supported , is undoubtedly very different . If the reader , therefore , meets with a number which contains . an instance that appears to him unsatisfactory , or ...
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... probable that there should be many attending St. Paul in Greece who knew nothing of the converts at Rome , nor were known by them . In like manner , several are joined in the salutation , who are not mentioned in the passage referred to ...
... probable that there should be many attending St. Paul in Greece who knew nothing of the converts at Rome , nor were known by them . In like manner , several are joined in the salutation , who are not mentioned in the passage referred to ...
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... probable , I mean that it is highly consistent with the account in the history , that Jason , according to that account a zealous disciple , the inhabitant of a city at no great distance from Greece , and through which , as it should ...
... probable , I mean that it is highly consistent with the account in the history , that Jason , according to that account a zealous disciple , the inhabitant of a city at no great distance from Greece , and through which , as it should ...
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Page 110 - And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins ; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience...
Page 255 - And here we offer and present unto Thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto Thee...
Page 102 - But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles ; but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him ; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
Page 255 - Christ; and dost assure us thereby of thy favour and goodness towards us; and that we are very members incorporate in the mystical body of thy Son, which is the blessed company of all faithful people; and are also heirs through hope of thy everlasting kingdom, by the merits of the most precious death and passion of thy dear Son.
Page 115 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers : but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart ; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men : knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Page 110 - ... which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Page 253 - WE do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy : grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that...
Page 114 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Page 224 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb : The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Page 133 - Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift : but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.