The Monthly Repository of Theology and General LiteratureSherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1831 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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No difficulty whatever exists , if we allow that each recorded the occurrence according to the best of his knowledge ; and it is easy to perceive how that of St. Matthew may have originated , ( especially if he were not himself an eye ...
No difficulty whatever exists , if we allow that each recorded the occurrence according to the best of his knowledge ; and it is easy to perceive how that of St. Matthew may have originated , ( especially if he were not himself an eye ...
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Why should the little naughty boy who was cruel to his bird be denied a pretty name ? Or why should goodness be connected with a name at all ? And why resort to the improbable retributive justice recorded in the sequel ?
Why should the little naughty boy who was cruel to his bird be denied a pretty name ? Or why should goodness be connected with a name at all ? And why resort to the improbable retributive justice recorded in the sequel ?
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So has it pleased conceives to be among those events a mysterious but all - wise Providence , which puzzle human reason satisfactorily and the reason for recording her humble to account for , but which will hereafter name in these pages ...
So has it pleased conceives to be among those events a mysterious but all - wise Providence , which puzzle human reason satisfactorily and the reason for recording her humble to account for , but which will hereafter name in these pages ...
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... effects of a too exclusive cultivation of the exact sciences and the inductive philosophy — as unreasonable an incredulity in the best attested facts that have not chanced to coincide with the actual tenor of recorded experience .
... effects of a too exclusive cultivation of the exact sciences and the inductive philosophy — as unreasonable an incredulity in the best attested facts that have not chanced to coincide with the actual tenor of recorded experience .
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Peter , and James , and John , who had been witnesses of this great event , were the first to announce it , in all their preachings , recorded in the earlier chapters of the Acts of the Apostles . And let us here recollect the previous ...
Peter , and James , and John , who had been witnesses of this great event , were the first to announce it , in all their preachings , recorded in the earlier chapters of the Acts of the Apostles . And let us here recollect the previous ...
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Page 489 - STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Page 154 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Page 138 - Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead; so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Page 139 - Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie ; and the napkin that was about his head not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Page 322 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 352 - And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing ? what is it which these witness against thee ? But Jesus held his peace.
Page 554 - For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver, and an antichrist.
Page 139 - ... was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
Page 576 - Father, who hath given them unto me, is greater than all ; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.
Page 355 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.