Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity: Delivered at the University of Virginia, During the Session of 1850-1William Henry Ruffner |
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... becomes a very strong probability , which may not be lightly set aside , by either the advocates or the rejecters of revelation . It may , indeed , be but one of the outworks , which surround the citadel of truth . And regarded with the ...
... becomes a very strong probability , which may not be lightly set aside , by either the advocates or the rejecters of revelation . It may , indeed , be but one of the outworks , which surround the citadel of truth . And regarded with the ...
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... becomes us to stand upon the outposts , and yield no point to the pretensions or the arts of unbe- lief , until it has been fairly proved to be untenable . Now the argument which we are to examine , may be regarded as a reply to the ...
... becomes us to stand upon the outposts , and yield no point to the pretensions or the arts of unbe- lief , until it has been fairly proved to be untenable . Now the argument which we are to examine , may be regarded as a reply to the ...
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... favor of those , who originally endowed , have " become vain in their imaginations , " and whose " foolish hearts " are thereby " darkened . " Nevertheless , there may be a well - founded expectation THE NECESSITY OF A REVELATION . 29.
... favor of those , who originally endowed , have " become vain in their imaginations , " and whose " foolish hearts " are thereby " darkened . " Nevertheless , there may be a well - founded expectation THE NECESSITY OF A REVELATION . 29.
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... become at once the legible and impressive records of God and his government . And under the clear shining of a sun , in the heavens , the philosophy of our day may decipher these records , and expatiate through all the fields of natural ...
... become at once the legible and impressive records of God and his government . And under the clear shining of a sun , in the heavens , the philosophy of our day may decipher these records , and expatiate through all the fields of natural ...
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... becomes a strong probability , that a Revelation would be given . 3. From the vantage ground of this probability , we are brought to inquire for that revelation so justly expected . And by as much as the Bible is superior and eminent ...
... becomes a strong probability , that a Revelation would be given . 3. From the vantage ground of this probability , we are brought to inquire for that revelation so justly expected . And by as much as the Bible is superior and eminent ...
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Page 378 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail...
Page 254 - Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piemontese that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 593 - Be wise now therefore, O ye kings : be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Page 591 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 273 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 592 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Page 578 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he epake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 281 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 65 - But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed, in any age or country.
Page 164 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.