Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity: Delivered at the University of Virginia, During the Session of 1850-1William Henry Ruffner |
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... spirit of these bills , an act was passed February 21st , 1818 , applying from the reve- nue of the Literary Fund , forty - five thousand dollars annually to primary schools , and fifteen thousand dollars annually for the endowment of ...
... spirit of these bills , an act was passed February 21st , 1818 , applying from the reve- nue of the Literary Fund , forty - five thousand dollars annually to primary schools , and fifteen thousand dollars annually for the endowment of ...
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... spirit was summoned from the scene of his honorable and useful labors . The University went into operation with eight professors and one hundred and twenty - three students . The average number of students up to this date has been over ...
... spirit was summoned from the scene of his honorable and useful labors . The University went into operation with eight professors and one hundred and twenty - three students . The average number of students up to this date has been over ...
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... spirit are entirely opposed to the humility of true science . - Locke . The fact is , men are not always in a mood to be con- vinced . - Logan . Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child , shall in no wise enter ...
... spirit are entirely opposed to the humility of true science . - Locke . The fact is , men are not always in a mood to be con- vinced . - Logan . Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child , shall in no wise enter ...
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... spirit exalteth folly ; " but the truth here asserted is of universal application . Rashness of mind is no more contrary to religion than to sound philosophy . The Bible warns us against " philos- ophy falsely so called . " Regard to ...
... spirit exalteth folly ; " but the truth here asserted is of universal application . Rashness of mind is no more contrary to religion than to sound philosophy . The Bible warns us against " philos- ophy falsely so called . " Regard to ...
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... God concealed , or obscurely handled in the Bible . Jesus Christ , the sole and sufficient cause of salvation to sinners , is clearly revealed . " The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy . " 2 MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS BELIEF . 17.
... God concealed , or obscurely handled in the Bible . Jesus Christ , the sole and sufficient cause of salvation to sinners , is clearly revealed . " The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy . " 2 MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS BELIEF . 17.
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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.