Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity: Delivered at the University of Virginia, During the Session of 1850-1William Henry Ruffner |
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... human being has the highest kind of evidence that he is a free agent . That evidence is his own consciousness . No man of sense will deny this . Nothing within the range of the human mind can be more free from violence , than the whole ...
... human being has the highest kind of evidence that he is a free agent . That evidence is his own consciousness . No man of sense will deny this . Nothing within the range of the human mind can be more free from violence , than the whole ...
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... human reason , as a guide to truth and duty , and therefore rejecting revelation as unnecessary . In this point of view , as a weapon of defence , the argument , if it can be made out , is certainly unexceptionable and conclusive . But ...
... human reason , as a guide to truth and duty , and therefore rejecting revelation as unnecessary . In this point of view , as a weapon of defence , the argument , if it can be made out , is certainly unexceptionable and conclusive . But ...
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... human folly , pride and power , which shall reach unto the heavens . Let the necessity of a Divine revelation be granted , or proved , and the entire superstructure of these self - styled philoso- phers will crumble to the earth . Its ...
... human folly , pride and power , which shall reach unto the heavens . Let the necessity of a Divine revelation be granted , or proved , and the entire superstructure of these self - styled philoso- phers will crumble to the earth . Its ...
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... human philoso- phy seeks some pretext to discard it . Then , often availing her- self of so much of its light as shall serve to define her own vague impressions , she vaunts her ability , in discovering the rudiments of religion , and ...
... human philoso- phy seeks some pretext to discard it . Then , often availing her- self of so much of its light as shall serve to define her own vague impressions , she vaunts her ability , in discovering the rudiments of religion , and ...
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... human intelligence , prove the Bible to be from Him . Thus much , Dr. Chalmers fully con- cedes , and in conceding it , shows that his previous exceptions can only hold against those defective representations of the argument , which ...
... human intelligence , prove the Bible to be from Him . Thus much , Dr. Chalmers fully con- cedes , and in conceding it , shows that his previous exceptions can only hold against those defective representations of the argument , which ...
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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.