Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity: Delivered at the University of Virginia, During the Session of 1850-1William Henry Ruffner |
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... give some account of the origin of the following course of lectures on the Evidences of Christianity . This task seems naturally to devolve on the undersigned , who was Chaplain in that institution at the time of the delivery of these ...
... give some account of the origin of the following course of lectures on the Evidences of Christianity . This task seems naturally to devolve on the undersigned , who was Chaplain in that institution at the time of the delivery of these ...
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... give to the sectarian schools of divinity the full benefit of the public provisions made for instruction in the other branches of science . These branches are equally necessary to the Divine as to the other profes- sional or civil ...
... give to the sectarian schools of divinity the full benefit of the public provisions made for instruction in the other branches of science . These branches are equally necessary to the Divine as to the other profes- sional or civil ...
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... give every encouragement , by assuring those who might choose such a location for their schools , that the regulations of the University should be so modified and accommodated as to give every facility of access and attendance to their ...
... give every encouragement , by assuring those who might choose such a location for their schools , that the regulations of the University should be so modified and accommodated as to give every facility of access and attendance to their ...
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... give trouble to the traveller to a distant city . May it not be fatal to the traveller to eternity ? The former ... gives me no new information , and no more evidence of the fact than I had before . Man also believes some things by an ...
... give trouble to the traveller to a distant city . May it not be fatal to the traveller to eternity ? The former ... gives me no new information , and no more evidence of the fact than I had before . Man also believes some things by an ...
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... give trouble to the traveller to a distant city . May it not be fatal to the traveller to eternity ? The former ... gives me no new information , and no more evidence of the fact than I had before . Man also believes some things by an ...
... give trouble to the traveller to a distant city . May it not be fatal to the traveller to eternity ? The former ... gives me no new information , and no more evidence of the fact than I had before . Man also believes some things by an ...
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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.