Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity: Delivered at the University of Virginia, During the Session of 1850-1William Henry Ruffner |
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... position and importance of the argument may be easily overlooked . But in a day like this , when the skeptical tendencies of our nature have the most unbounded scope and license , and our holy religion is menaced , by every variety of ...
... position and importance of the argument may be easily overlooked . But in a day like this , when the skeptical tendencies of our nature have the most unbounded scope and license , and our holy religion is menaced , by every variety of ...
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... position of the stars ; or the yet more indeterminate auguries derived from the entrails of a beast . But the foundation for a belief so absurd , is laid deep in the constitu- tion of our nature . These were but the erratic goings forth ...
... position of the stars ; or the yet more indeterminate auguries derived from the entrails of a beast . But the foundation for a belief so absurd , is laid deep in the constitu- tion of our nature . These were but the erratic goings forth ...
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... position , and to indicate the boundless field of confirmation , which the true date of these predictions will throw open . We received the Old Testament prophecies from the Jews ; and certainly , no corrup- tion of the text can have ...
... position , and to indicate the boundless field of confirmation , which the true date of these predictions will throw open . We received the Old Testament prophecies from the Jews ; and certainly , no corrup- tion of the text can have ...
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... position of the book in the sacred volume favors , that Malachi was the last of the Prophets , about B.C. 400. Until this time there had been a regular succession of * 2 Kings xxii . 8 seq . In the Pirka Aboth , one of the oldest books ...
... position of the book in the sacred volume favors , that Malachi was the last of the Prophets , about B.C. 400. Until this time there had been a regular succession of * 2 Kings xxii . 8 seq . In the Pirka Aboth , one of the oldest books ...
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... position as maintained , that in the person of Jesus Christ , as presented in the Christian Scriptures , we have a perfect model of moral excellence . My second proposition is , that this character thus portrayed , is not the result of ...
... position as maintained , that in the person of Jesus Christ , as presented in the Christian Scriptures , we have a perfect model of moral excellence . My second proposition is , that this character thus portrayed , is not the result of ...
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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.