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Edward Burton. will amuse as well as instruct ; it leads us through centuries of the most eventful story ; it exhibits the human mind under every variety of circumstance and character : and happy is the man who , when he traces the ...
Edward Burton. will amuse as well as instruct ; it leads us through centuries of the most eventful story ; it exhibits the human mind under every variety of circumstance and character : and happy is the man who , when he traces the ...
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... centuries , is a fact so remarkable as almost to warrant the idea , which excites the laugh of the philosopher , though wise and good men have enter- tained it , that they have not been preserved without 28 [ SERM . EVIDENCES OF.
... centuries , is a fact so remarkable as almost to warrant the idea , which excites the laugh of the philosopher , though wise and good men have enter- tained it , that they have not been preserved without 28 [ SERM . EVIDENCES OF.
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... centuries . If we look to the works of profane authors , we shall find no case at all parallel with this . It is true , indeed , that in the present day we read , as they are called , the histories of Livy and of Tacitus , one of whom ...
... centuries . If we look to the works of profane authors , we shall find no case at all parallel with this . It is true , indeed , that in the present day we read , as they are called , the histories of Livy and of Tacitus , one of whom ...
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Edward Burton. us ! Of the works which the apostles wrote in the first century , not a page is lost ; but of the one hundred and forty books which were written by Livy , we think ourselves fortunate that thirty - five have survived , and ...
Edward Burton. us ! Of the works which the apostles wrote in the first century , not a page is lost ; but of the one hundred and forty books which were written by Livy , we think ourselves fortunate that thirty - five have survived , and ...
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... century are considered of great value : it may be said that very few works which we call classical , exist in any copy of such high antiquity , and manuscripts as old as the twelfth century are extremely rare . But if we look to the ...
... century are considered of great value : it may be said that very few works which we call classical , exist in any copy of such high antiquity , and manuscripts as old as the twelfth century are extremely rare . But if we look to the ...
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Page 205 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ? For we know Him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
Page 167 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Page 43 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 273 - Faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons: nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son : and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.
Page 425 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses...
Page 193 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Page 206 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Page 139 - Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures ; and said unto them ; Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 407 - Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh : and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Page 141 - When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them ; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.